{"product_id":"matsumoto-seicho-a-quiet-place-9781908524638","title":"A Quiet Place","description":"\"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society.\"—The New York Times Book Review \"A stellar psychological thriller with a surprising and immensely satisfying resolution that flows naturally from the book’s complex characterizations. Readers will agree that Matsumoto (1909–1992) deserves his reputation as Japan’s Georges Simenon.-Publishers Weekly While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn’t totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife—who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings—ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood? When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife’s death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life... Seicho Matsumoto was Japan's most successful thriller writer. His first detective novel, Points and Lines, sold over a million copies in Japan. Vessel of Sand, published in English as Inspector Imanishi Investigates in 1989, sold over four million copies and became a movie box-office hit.","brand":"Bitter Lemon Press","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53188306010454,"sku":"9781908524638-G","price":51.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781908524638_1_fcb6df17-f448-42c6-bbce-dd08e75b7e50.jpg?v=1778568881","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/matsumoto-seicho-a-quiet-place-9781908524638","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}