num_pages: 235
description: While on a business trip to Kobe Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo a softly-spoken government bureaucrat perplexed. How did it come about that his wifewho was shy and withdrawn and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetingsended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wifes death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past he must eventually conclude that she led a double life...
language: English
title: A Quiet Place
publisher: Bitter Lemon Press