A Quiet Place EPUB

"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society." The New York Times Book Review"A stellar psychological thriller with a surprising and immensely satisfying resolution that flows naturally from the book's complex characterizations.Readers will agree that Matsumoto (1909?1992) deserves his reputation as Japan's Georges Simenon.-Publishers Weekly. While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack.

Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected.

But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed.

How did it come about that his wife?who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings?ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife's death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers.

As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life... Seicho Matsumoto was Japan's most successful thriller writer.

His first detective novel, Points and Lines, sold over a million copies in Japan.

Vessel of Sand, published in English as Inspector Imanishi Investigates in 1989, sold over four million copies and became a movie box-office hit.