| International Standard Book Number |
9781835417232
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| International Standard Book Number |
183541723X
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| Personal Name |
Jerram, Richard, author.
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| Title Statement |
The Makoto murders / Richard Jerram.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
London : Titan Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
303 pages ; 20 cm.
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| General Note |
"Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger"--Front cover.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow weekly magazine in Tokyo. He achieved fame with a photograph of a boy who drowned in the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, who he could have saved had he not been more concerned with finding the right light and composition for his shot. Four years later, he has failed to repeat that success and, facing irrelevancy (and, worse, redundancy), he decides to turn serial killer to generate his own attention-grabbing pictures - for which he's inevitably always first on the scene. His magazine then publishes the pictures, causing a sensation in a society where murder is almost unheard of, and tripling its sales figures. Hoping to impress his colleague Hayashi's estranged wife Makoto, who he is stalking after a short affair (though she clearly sees things differently), Kato murders only men and women with the same name as her. Inevitably the police are suspicious, but can find no evidence as he is meticulous in his planning and execution. Kato's editor is also suspicious, but is willing to ignore the evidence in front of him as sales boom"--Amazon.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Serial murderers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Photojournalists Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Tokyo (Japan) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Satirical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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