Cherchez la femme: detective fiction, women, and Japan

Passing and Posing: The Japanese American Body in the Detective Fiction of Sujata Massey and Dale Furutani

“… 2. For a fascinating account of contemporary detective fiction by Japanese women writers, see Amanda Catherine Seaman, “Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in Contemporary Japan.” However, apart from Miyuki Miyabe's All She Was Worth , these novels are not, as far as I know, available in English translation. …”