A master crime writer...
Seichō
Matsumoto\'s thrillers dissect Japanese society.-- The New York Times.
Some of these women have created a new life in Kanazawa and may have taken extreme measures to hide their past..
She discovers he had been a police officer in Tokyo after the war, keeping watch over pan pan girls, Japanese prostitutes catering to GIs.
Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to investigate his disappearance.
After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes.
Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by an intermediary.
A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation.
A master crime writer...
Seichō
Matsumoto\'s thrillers dissect Japanese society.-- The New York Times