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,