The hunter
Subtitle: a Detective Takako Otomichi mystery
By: Asa Nonami ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Contributors: Carpenter, Juliet Winters
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Kodansha International; Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9784770030252
Subjects: Wolfdogs; Women detectives; Fiction
Work titles: Kogoeru kiba
Description: When Takako Otomichi chooses the career of detective, her family disapproves and her male colleagues refuse to take her seriously, especially hard-bitten old gumshoe Sergeant Tamotsu Takizawa, her reluctant partner on the hunt for a mysterious murderer whose grisly trademark is to rip out the throat of his victims.
Notes: "Originally published by Shinchosha, Tokyo, in 1996, under the title Kogoeru kiba"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the Japanese.