02918cam a2200349 4500 545400632 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781908524645 1908524642 B01DV1YH8U Amazon 52b0445a-ccdd-4e76-82ab-ea4cb279f97a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2596468 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Matsumoto, Seicho. A Quiet Place [Libby]. Bitter Lemon Press, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 541kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 541kB. Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:<p>"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."—The New York Times Book Review<br /> "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.<br /> 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 How did it come about that his wife—who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings—ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?<br /> 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...<br /></p> <p><b>Seicho Matsumoto</b> was Japan's most successful thriller writer. His first detective novel, <i>Points and Lines</i>, sold over a million copies in Japan. <i>Vessel of Sand</i>, published in English as <i>Inspector Imanishi Investigates</i> in 1989, sold over four million copies and became a movie box-office hit.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. Kawai, Louise Heal. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=52b0445a-ccdd-4e76-82ab-ea4cb279f97a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=52b0445a-ccdd-4e76-82ab-ea4cb279f97a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=52b0445a-ccdd-4e76-82ab-ea4cb279f97a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)