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The Silent Dead

The Silent Dead

Author(s): Tetsuya Honda

Location(s): Tokyo

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Era(s): Contemporary

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Twenty-seven-year-old Detective Reiko Himekawa has an impressive ability to solve crimes. When a gruesomely slaughtered body wrapped in plastic is discovered, Reiko soon uncovers eleven other murders with a similar ‘signature’ and a reference to something called ‘strawberry night’, a group that recruits victims and murderers on the internet. To solve the case, Reiko is forced to reach back into her own troubled past.

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Author: tripfiction

The Silent Dead is not for the faint-hearted. It is Tokyo noir at its best… and most gruesome. A series of twelve quite mind bogglingly evil and brutal murders threatens to confound the police....

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