Tokyo Trilogy Book 1

British author Peace (Red Riding Quartet) bases this riveting novel on a real-life serial-killer case
in post-WWII Japan. When the nude body of a young woman turns up in a local park, Inspector Minami of
the Tokyo police and his squad of detectives investigate. At the crime scene, Minami finds another woman's
body nearby and begins to suspect there will be more to come. Minami, married and a father of two, is smart,
tenacious and experienced; he's also addicted to sedatives, keeps a mistress, is in the pocket of a local
crime lord and not above sampling the wares of prostitutes he encounters while roaming the city at night.
Tokyo has been heavily damaged by Allied bombing, the populace is starving, the occupying victors are
overbearing and brutal; for the Japanese, there's only an unrelenting struggle to stay alive in a nightmare
world. Peace, whose complex style feels like a cross between Haruki Murakami and James Ellroy, delivers an
expressionistic portrait of a harrowing, devastated time and place

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