Biography

Keisuke Matsuoka (松岡圭祐, Matsuoka Keisuke) (born December 3, 1968, in Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese novelist. His first novel, the psycho-thriller Saimin (Hypnosis) sold over a million copies on its release in 1997 and has been adapted into a film of the same name by Masayuki Ochiai. His sophomore release of Senrigan (Clairovoyance) about a Air Self-Defense Force fighter pilot turned clinical psychologist launched a popular series, which have achieved combined sales of over six and a quarter million books. He is author of the nine-volume Banno kanteishi Q no jikenbo (Casebook of Universal Appraiser Q) series, and the Tantei no tantei (Detective vs Detectives) series, also adapted into a television series of the same name by Fuji TV.Matsuoka is best known outside of Japan for his Sherlock Holmes pastiche, A Scandal in Japan, which has been translated into English by James Balzer. The novel explores the time between Holmes' alleged death at Reichenbach Falls and his reappearance in London three years later.Goodreads notes, "He is known for deftly weaving global political issues and near-future projections into his works".