Beast in the Shadows (2023)

this is a really twisty and weird Japanese crime novel it's not going to blow your mind it's not going to change the world

I really enjoyed this. I thought it was really fun and I thought the twists and turns of the plot were really like interesting. I did kind of foresee some of them, but I didn't really mind that because I still thought it worked quite well.

this is much better to me than this is more to my taste this has the sort of Cruelty and perversity that I tend to expect from modern Japanese fiction because of course I started reading it with Mishima and Dai way back in the 80s and you know there are flashes of Po the man who invented detective fiction and it's entertaining up to a point but again it comes down to one of these twisty houd denit and houd denit are not for me