A review by jameseckman
A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto

3.0

A very strange book, and while I labeled it a mystery, its certainly not a conventional one. Here we get a peek inside of Japanese bureaucracy where graduates from Todai (Tokyo Imperial University) and other elite colleges rule over the people who do the real work. Our hardworking protagonist Asai endures this nonsense, he knows that there is no other way for him. The unexpected death of his wife Eiko under strange circumstances seems to have been the final straw, the investigation that he undertakes leads him down a dark path. It starts slow but picks up the pace near the end. A decent, unusual read.