The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?

Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main reason customers stop by . . .

The father-daughter duo are ‘food detectives’. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.

A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.

Seeing books marketed at comparable to Before the Coffee Gets Cold immediately draws my interest, so when I saw this one I had to pick it up. In this one we follow a father and daughter who run a restaurant, which they make almost impossible to find except for those that really want to locate them in order to locate dishes from their past. It’s very slice of life with a lot of emotions and reminiscing as each person experiences the dish and memories that they were yearning for. The book is made up of connected vignette like stories, similarly to Before the Coffee Gets Cold, but there’s not magic/supernatural aspect to it. I look forward to the following books in the series getting published in English as I want to see what customers find them as well as the relationship between father and daughter.

Happy reading!