The Makoto Murders
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A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller from the winner of the 2024
Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger, in which a Tokyo
paparazzo commits murders in order to generate the photos his
magazine’s readership ghoulishly demands. A razor-sharp skewering
of our darkest fantasies and obsession with true crime for fans of
Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family and Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My
Sister, The Serial Killer. A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller from
the winner of the 2024 Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger,
in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders in order to generate the
photos his magazine’s readership ghoulishly demands. A razor-sharp
skewering of our darkest fantasies and obsession with true crime
for fans of Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family and Oyinkan
Braithwaite’s My Sister, The Serial Killer. Ken Kato is a
half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow
weekly magazine in Tokyo. He achieved fame with a photograph of a
boy who drowned in the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, who he could
have saved had he not been more concerned with finding the right
light and composition for his shot. Four years later, he has failed
to repeat that success and, facing irrelevancy (and, worse,
redundancy), he decides to turn serial killer to generate his own
attention-grabbing pictures – for which he’s inevitably always
first on the scene. His magazine then publishes the pictures,
causing a sensation in a society where murder is almost unheard of,
and tripling its sales figures. Hoping to impress his colleague
Hayashi’s estranged wife Makoto, who he is stalking after a short
affair (though she clearly sees things differently), Kato murders
only men and women with the same name as her. Inevitably the police
are suspicious, but can find no evidence as he is meticulous in his
planning and execution. Kato’s editor is also suspicious, but is
willing to ignore the evidence in front of him as sales boom. A
pitch-dark satire on where ambition will take us, as well as our
ghoulish obsession with true crime and our fascination with morally
repellent serial killers (especially if they’re good-looking and
charismatic), The Makoto Murders asks plenty of uncomfortable
questions of the reader while never forgetting it’s first and
foremost a page-turning thriller.
Výber kníh autorov
Titan Books Ltd ,
Richard Jerram
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Titan Books Ltd,
Richard Jerram
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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