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A review by themaddiehatter
A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto
5.0
I talk about this book here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qn5h9MHMuQ .
Japanese detective thrillers never cease to amaze me. I read "A Quiet Place", by Seicho Matsumoto (translated by Louise Heal Kawai) in about 1-2 sittings. It tells the story of a respectable, government man trying to look into his wife's unexpected heart-attack related death. As he looks into his wife's life and death, the story unfolds in a way I didn't expect at all and it, quite honestly, blew me away.
This was a very different murder mystery than I've read before and than what I was expecting.
It was first published in Japan in 1975 and it was translated and published in English in 2016. I seriously have to get back to my Japanese studies because who knows how many more amazing Japanese mysteries are out there going untranslated.
Japanese detective thrillers never cease to amaze me. I read "A Quiet Place", by Seicho Matsumoto (translated by Louise Heal Kawai) in about 1-2 sittings. It tells the story of a respectable, government man trying to look into his wife's unexpected heart-attack related death. As he looks into his wife's life and death, the story unfolds in a way I didn't expect at all and it, quite honestly, blew me away.
This was a very different murder mystery than I've read before and than what I was expecting.
It was first published in Japan in 1975 and it was translated and published in English in 2016. I seriously have to get back to my Japanese studies because who knows how many more amazing Japanese mysteries are out there going untranslated.