Each has a very different character, but they are bound together by the economics of their respective circumstances. There she is part of a team with Yoshi, Masako and Kuniko. (A similar set-up was used in the later The Devotion of Suspect X (2005), by Keigo Higashino in that novel an ex-husband is murdered, but the wife is assisted by her neighbour rather than colleagues.) They work the night shift (because it pays better than daytime hours) at a factory unit in a nondescript area of Tokyo where town and country rub together, producing bento, boxed lunches. Fortunately she can call on her workmates, associates rather than close friends, to help her out. In a fit of anger she strangles him but is left with the problem of what to do with the body. Yayoi snaps because of her husband Kenji’s ill-treatment of her, his gambling, on which he has spent all their savings, and his lusting after a woman who works in a club. Natsuo Kirino deftly depicts the complications arising from a domestic murder in this densely-plotted Japanese thriller.
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