Lonesome song

Author: (Japanese) Tendou Kousuke / Zhao Jianxun
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book won the Excellence Award for the 6th Japan Mystery Novel Suspense Award. Even if two people are brought together by love, they may not truly understand each other! Is the self others see the same as the self one sees? Which one—others' perception or one's own—is more accepting of the truth? Ryo's mother was the other woman, and despite her lover's objections, she gave birth to Ryo. She hoped that her son's birth would evoke sympathy from the married man, leading him to betray his family and live with her and her son. However, her wish was not fulfilled, and it cast a shadow over her son's future life. Ryo's new wife, upon learning his true identity, left him under external pressure, despite Ryo's desperate pleas. His mother, unable to bear the psychological stress, also took her own life. From then on, Ryo became disoriented and turned to a life of crime. He imprisoned and murdered several young girls, and the neighbor girl of female police officer Asama Fumiki was also among those missing. Recently, the girl hinted to Fumiki that if anything happened, she would come to her. An accidental robbery at a convenience store drew the police's attention to Ryo, who was shopping at the time. Fumiki disguised herself and came to the convenience store where Ryo often hung out at night, only to be "captured" by Ryo as his prey and taken back to his home. This novel is an Excellence Award winner of the Japan Mystery Novel Suspense Award. The author ingeniously uses two first-person perspectives and a third-person perspective to narrate the story, with a very clever and rigorous structure. "I" is a young man working late shifts at a 24-hour convenience store, passionate about music composition. "Ora" is a young female detective. "He" is a serial kidnapper and murderer who has killed many young single women. "Ora" was originally in charge of investigating a robbery at the convenience store, but the disappearance of a friend led her to stubbornly focus on the serial kidnapping and murder case, which was beyond her jurisdiction, and ultimately captured the killer "He." Throughout the process of solving both the robbery and the serial kidnapping and murder cases, the young man "I" played a crucial role. So, why did "He"ly kidnap and murder so many young single women? Why was "Ora" so determined to solve this case? Was "I's" involvement in the investigation accidental? Only by reading the entire novel can you find the answers.