From the author of Trembling Cow and Galapagos!

A prefectural government official for Miyagi Prefecture murdered in temporary housing in the city of Higashimatsushima. The victim, Junya Hayasaka, had been instrumental in the recovery effort after the Great East Japan Earthquake and was reportedly checking a list of evacuation centres in disaster-hit areas. A mournful, requiem-like mystery set in the cities of Ishinomaki, Kamaishi, and Rikuzentakata in the northeast of Japan.

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