Natsuo Kirino, born in 1951, quickly established a reputation in Japan as one of a rare breed of crime writer whose work goes well beyond the conventional crime novel. This fact has been demonstrated by her winning not only Japan's top...

Best-selling author Natsuo Kirino's "dark and lovely feminist retelling of the Japanese creation myth" (NPR.com) is a sumptuous story of sex, murder, and bittersweet revenge that is "filled with rage and pathos for the battles that women...

Gripping Tokyo crime thriller from the leading name in Japanese crime fiction. "The gritty realism comes across with pungent force" "Publisher's Weekly" von Kirino, Natsuo

Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the...

In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the...