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Confessions

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444732467

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Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Thriller / Suspense

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When Yuko Moriguchi’s four-year-old daughter died in the middle school where she teaches, everyone thought it was a tragic accident.

It’s the last day of term, and Yuko’s last day at work. She tells her students that she has resigned because of what happened – but not for the reasons they think.

Her daughter didn’t die in an accident. Her daughter was killed by two people in the class. And before she leaves, she has a lesson to teach…

But revenge has a way of spinning out of control, and Yuko’s last lecture is only the start of the story. In this bestselling Japanese thriller of love, despair and murder, everyone has a confession to make, and no one will escape unharmed.

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A dark, dystopic portrait of Japanese adolescence gone wrong. If Albert Camus had written Heathers, it would have looked a lot like this.
Alex Marwood, author of THE WICKED GIRLS
Brilliantly original and chilling.
David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of MURDER AS A FINE ART
Taut, unsettling and relentlessly engaging, CONFESSIONS is a book with claws, in more sense than one. I defy any fan of smart, unconventional crime writing to set this novel aside once they've started it.
Simon Lelic, author of The Child Who and Rupture
Don't be fooled by the hypnotic beauty of Kanae Minato's prose. As the characters in CONFESSIONS are stripped of their secrets, the novel reveals its audacious dark heart. A pitch-perfect, riveting read.
Hilary Davidson, Anthony Award-winning author of The Damage Done and Evil in All Its Disguises
It's time to unretire all of those back-of-the-book words that lost their meaning over the years-unputdownable, riveting, searing. CONFESSIONS is some uncanny kind of tour de force, and everyone should read it.
Charles Finch, Agatha Award-nominated author of The September Society and The Last Enchantments
CONFESSIONS is a dark, disturbing tale that twists and turns on itself like an Escher print. Just when you think you know where this thriller is going, Kanae Minato throws back the curtain to reveal another face to the mystery. A Lord of the Flies for the modern world, Minato mines the dark specter of youth, while simultaneously demonstrating some of the deeper perils of our global culture.
Jenny Milchman, Mary Higgins Clark Award-nominated author of Cover of Snow
Explosive... A dark thriller about love, despair and murder
Irish Tatler
Think of CONFESSIONS as the Gone Girl of Japan....[A] gut-wrenching thrill ride...its thrust should hit home for any reader with a pulse. It's a nauseating tale of morality and justice, with violent turns that will drop your jaw right to the floor
Los Angeles Times
Has the captivating quality of a gruesome car crash: As the murders grow bloodier and bloodier, the characters more and more twisted, we find ourselves fascinated and repulsed, unable to look away
New Republic
A reader is almost certain to be caught off guard more than once by the revelations of this award-winning best seller....Implacable, relentless
Wall Street Journal
Minato's intricate plotting and unnervingly understated sentences make the horrors follow each other as logically as pearls on a string
NPR
A spellbinding read, a fascinating peek into modern Japanese society, and a glimpse into the dark corners of the human psyche
Booklist
A creepy and mesmerizing psychological thriller that challenges the conventions of right vs. wrong, good vs. evil, and law vs. justice. There are no happy endings here, but Minato has pieced together an intriguing puzzle that will keep readers glued to their seats
Library Journal
A nasty little masterpiece...That rare creature in fiction: an ambitious investigation into the darkest corners of human nature that - unlike certain relatively sluggish models by Dostoevsky and Camus that Minato references here - is also a crackling good yarn
Chicago Tribune