If the way Makiko Saiga stitches together interviews and clippings to re-open the mass poisoning at the Aosawa celebration hooked you, you’ll love how Night Film immerses you in web pages, police reports, and photos as journalist Scott McGrath digs into filmmaker Stanislas Cordova and the death of his daughter, Ashley. That same dossier-style momentum—like paging through Saiga’s “forgotten festival” research—turns every scrap of evidence into a clue you can weigh yourself.

You liked how The Aosawa Murders uses Saiga’s true‑crime book to probe whether anyone can own the truth about Hisako and the cyanide‑laced drinks. In The Eighth Detective, editor Julia Hart visits reclusive author Grant McAllister to republish his old collection of detective tales—only to spot odd inconsistencies that hint at a buried, real crime. Like Onda’s novel, the act of writing becomes the crime scene, and the editor–author interviews echo Saiga’s uneasy conversations with those who survived the Aosawa party.

If you relished the way testimonies around Hisako and the deliveryman subtly warp what “really” happened, Christie’s classic will scratch the same itch. Told by village doctor James Sheppard, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd invites you to trust a voice that, like several storytellers in The Aosawa Murders, may be shaping the narrative for reasons of their own. The final reveal lands with that same chilly realization that truth depends on who’s speaking—and what they omit.

As with the shifting recollections about the Aosawa family’s party—neighbors, police, and Saiga each insisting on their version—Pears gives you four narrators in 1660s Oxford, including Marco da Cola and Anthony Wood, recounting the poisoning of a scholar tied to the enigmatic Sarah Blundy. Each narrative revises the last, compelling you to read like you did with Onda: sifting testimonies, spotting contradictions, and deciding where the truth actually lies.

If the decades-later returns to the Aosawa tragedy—the lingering guilt, the rumors about Hisako—stayed with you, Penance mirrors that slow, unsettling unravel. After schoolgirl Emili is murdered, her mother demands that the four classmates who saw the suspect never forget until they find him. Years pass, and each woman narrates her own piece, circling the original crime from different points in time, much like the layered, nonlinear re-examination of the Aosawa poisoning.