The lady killer
By: Masako Togawa ; translated by Simon Grove
Contributors: Grove, Simon, translator
Series: Pushkin vertigo; Pushkin ertigo
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781782273646
Subjects: Nightlife; Murderers; Fiction
Work titles: Ryōjin nikki
Description: A classic mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers The Lady Killer leads a double life in the shadow world of Tokyo's singles bars and nightclubs. By day a devoted husband and hard worker, by night he cruises nightclubs cafes and cinemas in search of lonely single women to seduce. But now the hunter is being hunted, and in his wake lies a trail of gruesome murders. Who is the culprit? The answer lies tangled in a web of clues, and to find it he must accept that nothing is what it seems. This is a moody, brilliantly plotted mystery from the writer dubbed 'the P.D. James of Japan'.