This kind of thing, no matter how sage he pretends to be, once he tears off that face, he is all a beast.
INTERVIEWER YOKOYAMA Hideo, Half Fall
Hideo Yokoyama is a famous Japanese mystery novelist who has won the Matsumoto Kiyoharu Award and the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award (Short Story Division). In 2016, the English edition of his masterpiece 64 was nominated for the International Dagger Award, the first time for an Asian writer. Half Fall also earns "This mystery novel is amazing!" and "Weekly Wenchun Masterpiece Reasoning BEST10" two major rankings at the top of the list.
Satoichiro Kaji, the second-in-command of the W County Police Correctional Department, strangled his wife, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the day of the death of his son who died of acute leukemia two years ago, and went to turn himself in on the morning of the seventh day, and his whereabouts were unknown on the fifth and sixth days. But for what happened two days after the crime, he never said a word. The entire interrogation process fell into a "half-dropped" state of incomplete confession. What did he think during these two blank days? And what was done?
Shiki, the Serious Case Instructor of the Police Search Division, received a notice to urgently interrogate the former police colleague, and the killer in front of Shiki was well-proportioned, with a white complexion and a warm face. A pair of deep and clear eyes is impressive. He confessed bluntly to the fact that he had killed his wife, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, in a state of semi-madness, and begged her husband to kill her before he forgot that he was a mother. He accepted. But what happened when you put down your wife's body and disappear for two days?
Leaflets for Tokyo's Kabukicho were found in the coats found at Satoichiro Kajikari's house, and witnesses had seen him wandering around the Shinkansen platform on the 6th. Is there any ulterior secret here? Is it really what Shiki thought: a serious life to the age of forty or fifty, the people of that era, from childhood social ethics education is that they regard sex as a forbidden area. The more they become faithful to this idea, the stronger their lust for sex will be, trapped in a flood of sexual information from all directions. One day, they will suddenly wake up, and even grit their teeth and chaf at their "loss", as if they want to hide the loss back. It is not uncommon for men to indulge in lust and ignore their families and careers. After strangling his wife, he left his body there and went to Kabukicho to meet his "lover" before turning himself in?
For the prefectural police, Kabukicho alone will make the W prefectural police become the meat of the media...
County police, district prosecutors, journalists, lawyers, judges, prison guards...
Everyone has their own ideas and lifestyles, and there is a belief that they cannot give up no matter what. How many difficulties and obstacles there are in the world, how bumpy and helpless the fate is, in human nature, there is always a glimmer of brilliance worth looking forward to. Even if it is only for a moment, it will illuminate the direction of someone's future.