Nacuo Kirino Knihy

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues. For reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body. The body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza connected loan shark who discovers their secret and has a business proposition, and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a result of their crime and he is out for revenge. OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.

Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them. But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.

On an island the shape of a tear drop live two sisters. One is the Oracle, the other is damned. One is admired far and wide. The other must sacrifice her life to fulfil her destiny. But what will happen when she returns to the island for revenge?

In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son and a high school misfit. But when he disappears (taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him) the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them.

Наиболее известное произведение Наоки-сана, "Лето злых духов" является первой книгой в серии "Убумэ". В ней автор, используя формат детективного романа, объясняет сверхъестественные явления и их мир через научные и рациональные мировоззрения, такие как нейробиология, квантовая механика, физика, а также различные религии и психология. Действие происходит в Токио 1950-х годов, где мужчина из древней семьи акушеров таинственным образом исчезает из запертой комнаты. Его беременная жена не может родить в течение 20 месяцев, и случайно втянутый в это дело третисортный писатель и владелец антикварного магазина приводят к неожиданному шокирующему развязке.

Una lettera di un rapitore di ragazze, avvenuto venticinque anni fa, spinge la protagonista, ormai una scrittrice affermata, a lasciare la sua casa. La protagonista lascia un manoscritto intitolato "Cronaca di una crudeltà", che racconta in dettaglio la sua esperienza di oltre un anno di prigionia. Dopo essere stata salvata, scopre inaspettatamente che qualcuno ha continuato a spiarla durante la sua vita in cattività, e le strane congetture delle persone intorno a lei la portano a decidere di seppellire la verità nel profondo del suo cuore. Durante la sua vita in prigionia, un uomo che la spia e uno zaino rosso con la scritta "Ota Michiko" aggiungono ulteriori ombre alla sua psiche. Sotto questa pressione psicologica, la protagonista trova il coraggio di vivere costruendo un castello di immaginazione e menzogne, che diventa anche fonte di ispirazione per le sue opere. In seguito, incontra inaspettatamente l'uomo che la spia… Ma il marito della protagonista sottolinea che ci sono molte invenzioni nel manoscritto. Qual è il vero legame tra la protagonista e il rapitore? Quali sono i conflitti con i suoi genitori? Chi è il corpo nascosto nel giardino? Quante verità ha realmente nascosto?

Nippon noir – provokant, abgründig, diabolisch Aiko Matsushima ist mit den Abgründen des Lebens von Kindesbeinen an vertraut. Sie wächst in einem heruntergekommenen Bordell in Tokio heran, von ihrer Mutter fehlt jede Spur. Außer einem Paar weißer Schuhe ist dem ungeliebten Kind nichts von ihr geblieben, und so muss Aiko früh lernen, sich in einer Welt voller Kälte und Rücksichtslosigkeit zu behaupten. Auch als sie älter wird, hat sie es nicht leicht. Sie schlägt sich als Prostituierte, Zimmermädchen oder Kellnerin so eben durch, stets umgeben von Schmutz, Armut und Elend – von Menschen, die Gescheiterte sind wie sie selbst. Und unmerklich wächst etwas in ihr heran, das eines Tages mit Macht an die Oberfläche drängt: Sie, die mit dem Rücken zur Wand steht, ist nun bereit, alle Tabus zu brechen. Getrieben von mörderischem Hass, bricht sie auf zu einem beispiellosen Rachefeldzug – und dabei kennt ihr Killerinstinkt keine Gnade … • Provokant und schonungslos – das faszinierende Psychogramm einer jungen Frau, die ihre Seele verloren hat und zur Serienmörderin wird

高級タワーマンションに暮らす岩見有紗は窒息寸前だ。ままならぬ子育て、しがらみに満ちたママ友たちとの付き合い、海外出張中の夫・俊平からの離婚申し出、そして誰にも明かせない彼女自身の過去。軋んでいく人間関係を通じて、徐々に明らかとなるそれぞれの秘密。華やかな幸せの裏側に潜む悪意と空虚を暴き出す。人気女性誌「VERY」連載時から話題沸騰の衝撃作!