Grotesque

Notes

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino was inspired by the murder, in 1997, of a 39-year-old woman in Tokyo.  The victim was a well-respected researcher for a power company by day yet moonlighted as a prostitute by night.

Publisher’s Synopsis

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.

Read a full review of Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino at Reviewing the Evidence.