<p><b>From 'a master crime writer' (<i>Financial Times</i>), a chilling story where Japanese tradition and Western crime collide - now available in English for the first time <br /><br /></b><br />Musashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play - but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of silence.<br /><br />At the centre of it all stands a foreign priest and the Guglielmo Church, a charitable Christian mission. The dead woman's connection to the church is undeniable. But what begins as a routine investigation quickly turns into something far more treacherous, entangling together narcotics, post-war relief schemes and the delicate web of international diplomacy.<br /><br />As the story moves from back alleys to diplomatic sanctuaries, following the twists and turns of Detective Fujisawa's investigation, Seicho Matsumoto masterfully constructs a slow-burning procedural where truth is clear but justice is not permitted.<br /><br />Translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood<br /></p>