Keisuke Matsuoka exploded onto the literary stage in 1997 with the psycho-thriller Saimin (Hypnosis), which sold over a million copies in Japan. Two years later he published Senrigan (Second Sight), which have spin offs and sequesls, achieved combined sales of over six and a quarter million books to date.
His recent novel Tantei no Tantei (Detective vs Detective) become a success which a drama series was created in Japan. Detective VS Detective is currently streaming in the U.S. on Crunchyroll.
Matsuoka has won many awards through out his career, his most recent being the 2014 Bookwalker Grand Prize Award in Literature.