Motivation

Author: Hideo Yasumoto
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Soul-stirring, gripping, every word a gem! Hideo Yasumoto's works excel at profoundly revealing the social aspects behind events and delicately analyzing characters' psychological weaknesses. He is hailed by the Japanese literary world as the "Takemura Kiyosaburo of the Heisei era." This book collects four of his highly suspenseful psychological mystery novels, including Motivation, which won the 53rd Japan Mystery Writers' Association Award.
A journalist by profession, Hideo Yasumoto adheres to the principle of "soul-stirring in every stroke."
Motivation: Thirty police certificates locked in a police station's file cabinet vanish into thin air. Was it an external perpetrator or an internal theft? If the culprit is within the police force, what could be their motive?
Reversed Summer: Thirteen years ago, Yamamoto Youji was imprisoned for killing a high school girl he met at a love hotel. Just three months after his parole, he receives a strange anonymous phone call offering a hefty sum to hire him for a murder. Did Yamamoto agree? What was the outcome?
Source of Intelligence: A national newspaper wants to transfer local reporter Mizushima Makiko to their staff, leaving her flabbergasted: Could it be because she has a confidential information source? Does she truly possess the life-altering intelligence that could save a journalist's career?
The Person in the Locked Room: While presiding over a trial, the Chief Justice, Yasu, falls asleep in court and whispers his wife's name in his dreams. He loves his wife so deeply, yet she has cheated on him with a 58-year-old man outside. This man, who committed an assault, is now being tried by Yasu. Around 10:30 in the morning, the wind picks up. In the hospital lobby overlooking the sea, there's no trace of the bustling New Year's Eve preparations. No patients are queuing for medicine, no visitors are lingering, and no nurses rush around like whirlwinds. In fact, no matter when you visit this hospital, the scene...