A review by feainnewedd
A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto

3.0

At first I wasn't sure how to feel about A Quiet Place by Seichou Matsumoto, but I've come to realize that this novel is not so much a crime thriller as a psychological study of obsessive curiosity, suspicion, guilt, and paranoia, and Matsumoto does a great job of taking us inside the lead character Asai's head. He drums up the intensity from 10, then 50, then all the way to 100, sustains that through the last third of the novel, then, suddenly, the end.

Rating it 3/5 because I found it convenient that all of Asai's conclusions were 100% right on the mark. Felt more like deus ex machina than something believable.