Queen bee

Author: Keigo Higashino
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book's table of contents introduction: Chapter Moonlit Island; Chapter 2 The Locked Room; Chapter 3 The Mysterious Client; Chapter 4 The Vanishing Bat; The peerless beauty, Tozuka Tomoko, on Moonlit Island is actually the "Bee Queen"? Following her mother's last wishes, at the age of eighteen, Tomoko sets off for her adoptive father's home in Tokyo, yet inexplicably sees red lipstick written on the bathroom mirror: "Go back! You are surrounded by blood!" Meanwhile, Tomoko's adoptive father also receives a threatening letter: "She is the Queen Bee. Every man who admires her cannot escape death. Think back to the tragedy nineteen years ago!" In just a few short weeks, seven people die around Tomoko. Jin-ichi Kageyama is entrusted to escort Tomoko to Tokyo and investigate the case, only to unexpectedly uncover the truth behind her father's death nineteen years ago.