by Natsuo Kirino · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496580411
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«Out» is the crime novel by Natsuo Kirino, published by Booket in paperback (560 pages, in Spanish).
Four women on the night shift at a prepared-food factory in Tokyo are dragged into crime when one kills her abusive husband. Helping her hide the corpse puts them in the spotlight of the police and the Japanese mafia. Pressure and desperation drive them to extreme decisions to survive.
It is the first instalment of Booket's Crime and Mystery collection. The novel won the Mystery Writers of Japan award and the English translation was a finalist for the Edgar.
For readers of police thrillers looking for an intense story with female protagonists and a Japanese setting.
Natsuo Kirino is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.
