Pre-Owned All She Was Worth (Paperback) 9780395966587

from nkmunn

The way the investigator's boy partially knows, comes to know, and yet can't fully know the motives of the adult characters perfectly evokes the way no person can truly know another's inner world.I...

from jump4sushi

Miyuki Miyabe fleshes out a sordidly suspenseful web of lies that start from a simple case of one woman's stolen identity. Shunsuke Honma, a middle-aged Tokyo police inspector with a 10-year-old so...

from zerraweth

One of my friends described the writing style as being like a manga and it's true. It takes a bit to get into it but once you're in, you're in until the anti-climatic in.

from loafhunter13

A tight, thrilling picture of Japan after the economic bubble. A thriller that manages to captivate without gore, violence, or physical crime. This is a great fictional look at the Japan of the lat...

from quondame

A well paced mystery in which a young woman goes missing and the harsh realities of life as an independent young woman in late 20th century Japan are encountered repeatedly as the facts behind who ...