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A Quiet Place

by Seicho Matsumoto

  

€ 12.50 

ISBN: 9780241744208

A thrillingly dark novel from 'Japan's Agatha Christie' (Sunday Times)

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 How did it come about that his wife, who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighbourhood?

When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife's 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...

240 pages.

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Printed on or after 07/08/25. Please note dispatch may take 5-10 days after publication date.
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Date of Publication: 07/08/2025

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