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The Silent Dead
The Silent Dead: A Mystery | Tetsuya Honda
3 posts | 4 read | 1 reading | 3 to read
When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally---his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what" or the "why" of this crime. At age twenty-nine, Reiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Homicide Division is young to have been made lieutenant, particularly because she lacks any kind of political or family connections. Despite barriers created by age, gender, and lack of connections, she is mentally tough, oblivious to danger, and has an impressive ability to solve crimes. Reiko makes a discovery that leads the police to uncover eleven other bodies, all wrapped in the same sort of plastic. Few of the bodies are identifiable, but the ones that are have no connection to each other. The only possible clue is a long shot lead to a website spoken only in whispers on the Internet, something on the dark web known as "Strawberry Night." But while she is hunting the killer, the killer is hunting her... and she may very well have been marked as the next victim.
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Tonton
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I came to the novel last, after enjoying two separate TV series and a film adaptation. Detective Reiko Himekawa is the youngest ever lieutenant with her own squad and she‘s up against the internal old boy network as well as a series of murders linked by a dark website: Strawberry Night. She has got an intuitive sense of what drives the killer. She walks s tightrope of empathy and the need to solve the crime. Her unwoke older rival is on the case,

Tonton And boy do they tangle. Their relationship has hints of developing in further books in the series. She can be a hot mess but will never give up, which I like. The translation is not perfect but gets you where you need to go! 6y
TrishB Great review 👍🏻 6y
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Lillie
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In the end the mystery itself was good but it was a rough read. I didn't particularly like any of the characters, the translation was a bit rough and it took too long to get to the meat of the story. First murder mystery I've read set in Japan. Liked that part. So overall verdict: ok.
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Lillie
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This whole exchange tickled my funny bone. She's trying to think through the murder scenario in her mind while he continues to talk not realizing she's in deep thought. So far a good mystery set in Japan.