International Bestseller
Winner of the Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year Award
Already a bestseller in Japan and the U.K. this cinematic crime novel suffused with fascinating cultural details follows a police department reinvestigating a chilling kidnapping that stumped them 14 years earlier. Entertainment Weekly The Must List
THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE. THE CASE NO DETECTIVE COULD SOLVE. THE TWIST NO READER COULD PREDICT.
For five days the parents of a seven-year-old Japanese schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughters kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. And they would never see their daughter alive again.
Fourteen years later the mystery remains unsolved. The police departments press officerYoshinobu Mikami a former detective who was involved in the original case and who is now himself the father of a missing daughteris forced to revisit the botched investigation. The stigma of the case known as Six Four has never faded; the polices failure remains a profound source of shame and an unending collective responsibility.
Mikami does not aspire to solve the crime. He has