Category: Mystery/Suspense Publisher: Joseph Mark Brewer
Type: Fiction
Pages: 104
Copyright: April 21, 2017
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
A suicide is ruled a murder, Inspector Shig Sato uncovers nothing but alibis and excuses to hide shameful secrets.
Tokyo Police Inspector Shig Sato had done the unthinkable. He's turned down a promotion for the second time. Now he's being taken off criminal investigation duty to serve as a bodyguard for visiting dignitaries.
But he has to solve one last case.
The wife of a Bank of Japan official is dead. Was she a miserable housewife or mentally ill? Was her death a suicide or murder? Uncovering lies at every turn, Sato realizes whoever killed her could get away with murder - and keep hidden an unspeakable truth.
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Professional Reviews
Bitter Crime Story
Well written, with dialogues exactly how they should be to give enough information about characters and not to become long sheets of speech - in fact, dialogues are my favorite part of this book. The author managed to make them a tool for describing everything: the personality of the characters, the interiors and exteriors mentioned in a story, the cultural differences and customs the readers might be not familiar with.
The story begins as a typical crime story, but as it goes further, you can feel that it can't end well. Even that atmosphere of something ominous exist from the beginning of the book, its end still shocked me. The story neatly led us to it and yet it was and was not a surprise.
Fabulous read. Highly recommend.
Nice murder mystery!
Nice murder mystery! This book is a prequel to the author’s Shig Sato series about a brilliant police detective in Japan. The story introduces Sato and sets the stage for the series. This is definitely a well-written, well-conceived story. The characters are strong and the descriptions are excellent. I’ve never been a big murder mystery fan, but decided to give this one a try in part because of its uniqueness – it is set in Japan. And I wasn’t disappointed. I was hooked on the mystery from the beginning and had to know what really happened to the victim. I highly recommend it.
Great Read
This is my first toe dip into the world of Shig Sato, and let me say, I am suitably impressed. The author really developed the characters in a way that made me care about them faster then I usually do. My only complaint would be the length of the story, but I am glad to know there is more Shig Sato out there.
