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Kanae Minato
A chilling Japanese psychological thriller and Edgar Award finalist about four women, forever connected by one horrible day in their childhood -- fifteen years later, someone wants to make sure they never forget. When they were girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into leaving their friend Emily with a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurred: Emily was found murdered hours later. The four friends were never able to describe the stranger to the police; the killer's trail went cold. Asako, the bereaved mother, curses the surviving girls, vowing that they will be the ones to pay for her daughter's murder . . . Like Confessions, Kanae Minato's award-winning, internationally bestselling debut, Penance is a dark tale of revenge and psychological drama that will leave readers breathless.
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Author
Kanae Minato
Pages
240
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2017-04-11
ISBN
031634916X 9780316349161
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"The format of the book, with each chapter narrated by a different character describing their reaction to the same events, was really interesting and used well.<br/><br/>I flew through this book and every twist and turn surprised me, but it felt kind of like it ran out of steam at the end."
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"Now that's how you do a take on the true crime industrial complex. Brilliant, subversive, well-written, emotional. All the good adjectives. Eliza Clark forever."
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