From 'a master crime writer' (Financial Times), a chilling story where Japanese tradition and Western crime collide - now available in English for the first time


Musashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play - but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of silence.

At the centre of it all stands a foreign priest and the Guglielmo Church, a charitable Christian mission. The dead woman's connection to the church is undeniable. But what begins as a routine investigation quickly turns into something far more treacherous, entangling together narcotics, post-war relief schemes and the delicate web of international diplomacy.

As the story moves from back alleys to diplomatic sanctuaries, following the twists and turns of Detective Fujisawa's investigation, Seicho Matsumoto masterfully constructs a slow-burning procedural where truth is clear but justice is not permitted.

Translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood

ÖVRIGT:
Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Häftad
Författare: Seicho Matsumoto
Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd.
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 464 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 135x215x38 mm
Vikt: 458 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9780241688748
SKU: 734382