The Aosawa Murders

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The Aosawa Murders
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The Aosawa Murders

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Published: 16 January, 2020
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On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 people die from cyanide in their drinks. The only surviving links to what might have happened are a cryptic verse that could be the killer's, and the physician's bewitching blind daughter, Hisako, the only person spared injury. But the youth who emerges as the prime suspect commits suicide that October, effectively sealing his guilt while consigning his motives to mystery. The police are convinced that Hisako had a role in the crime, as are many in the town, including the author of a bestselling book about the murders written a decade after the incident, who was herself a childhood friend of Hisako' and witness to the discovery of the murders. The truth is revealed through a skilful juggling of testimony by different voices: family members, witnesses and neighbours, police investigators and of course the mesmerizing Hisako herself.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781912242245
ISBN10 1912242249
Number Of Pages 346
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Bitter Lemon Press
Format paperback
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"A superb mystery in the true sense of the word." Asahi Shimbun "This spine-chilling masterpiece will make you aware of the dark places in your own heart." Hokkaido Shimbun "With superb skill, Onda depicts the ambiguity of truth and the unreliability of facts." Shukan Pia

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Author's Bio

Riku Onda, born in 1964, is the professional name of Nanae Kumagai. She has been writing fiction since 1991 and has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel, the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television. Alison Watts is an Australian-born Japanese to English translator and long time resident of Japan. She has published a translation of Aya Goda's TAO: On the Road and On the Run In Outlaw China and of Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, released in October 2017.

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