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A review by per_fictionist
The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa
5.0
If I am going to be super honest, let me first say that I am quite vexed at myself for discovering this genre quite late "The CLASSIC JAPANESE MYSTERIES", I mean.
So recently @pushkin_press republished a number of Japanese noirs and this is my second read from the lot and like my last read "The HONJIN MURDERS", this impressed me a lot! Fine, I'll admit. Quite a lot!
It was manipulative, engrossing and all-consuming at the same time where we follow Kentaro Hatanaka, the lawyer of a convicted serial killer, Ichiro Handa as he sets on a quest to untangle the web of mystery behind the murders of his client's bedmates.
With Hatanka, we retrace the steps with the grace of his expertise intricately. I don't want to give away much about this book by getting into the details because it is something that's better when read by yourself!
The starting might feel a bit difficult to get a grip on but rest assured if you love an atmospheric setting where the story plays itself as the protagonist, then this is a MUST.
Also, I think translated Japanese murder mysteries have sort of become my thing
So recently @pushkin_press republished a number of Japanese noirs and this is my second read from the lot and like my last read "The HONJIN MURDERS", this impressed me a lot! Fine, I'll admit. Quite a lot!
It was manipulative, engrossing and all-consuming at the same time where we follow Kentaro Hatanaka, the lawyer of a convicted serial killer, Ichiro Handa as he sets on a quest to untangle the web of mystery behind the murders of his client's bedmates.
With Hatanka, we retrace the steps with the grace of his expertise intricately. I don't want to give away much about this book by getting into the details because it is something that's better when read by yourself!
The starting might feel a bit difficult to get a grip on but rest assured if you love an atmospheric setting where the story plays itself as the protagonist, then this is a MUST.
Also, I think translated Japanese murder mysteries have sort of become my thing