For piano tuner and jazz musician Frank Ryan, what starts out as a holiday in Japan turns into a painful lesson in cultural differences. A faceless foreigner in a city of thirteen million, Frank finds his vacation morphing into an extended tax-free holiday funded by piano lessons for bored housewives and a gig in a trendy underground bar. But when Frank feels his heart being tugged in the direction of a mysterious woman with a grudge against the crime boss who owns the bar, he steps into a world where the line between truth and deceit has been drawn by people he can't understand. Pulled into Tokyo Girl's vendetta, Frank stumbles into an underworld where transgressions are paid for by the flash of a razor-sharp cleaver. And for a pianist, that's not a good thing. Tokyo Girl is the follow-up to Beethoven's Tenth , featuring reluctant sleuth Frank Ryan.