Soul Cage

by Tetsuya Honda Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, Josh Bloomberg, Feodor Chin

Overview

In this second installment of Japanese bestselling author Tetsuya Honda's much-loved Reiko Himekawa series, before worrying about finding the identity of the culprit in a murder case, police will first have to stretch their resources to discover the identity of the victim.

A severed left hand is found in a minivan abandoned on a dry riverbed. When Tokyo Metropolitan Police Force Lieutenant Reiko Himekawa and her team join the investigation, the hand is quickly identified as belonging to building contractor Kenichi Takaoka, and from the amount of blood spilled in the van, it is presumed that he was killed. However searches fail to turn up the rest of the body, and the mystery deepens when a childhood friend shown a photo of the victim declares, “That's not Takaoka.”

The hand was actually cut from Kazutoshi Naito, who was believed to have killed himself thirteen years before. What has Himekawa stumbled into?

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Excellent... the ultimate answer to this clever blend of procedural and whodunit doesn't disappoint." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Kirkus Reviews

2017-05-02
A veteran policewoman battles a competitive squad room and witnesses with secrets.Still stunned by the death of young cop Shinji Otsuka (The Silent Dead, 2016), tough Tokyo Police Lt. Reiko Himekawa catches a bizarre case that begins with the unearthing of a severed hand in the back of a Subaru van. Fingerprints and blood evidence indicate murder and identify the victim as Kenichi Takaoka, a subcontractor on big production contracts, though the rest of the body remains undiscovered. Reiko leads 10 teams of two officers in the probe. Unfortunately, the case also places her in close contact with rival Hiromitsu Ioka, recently transferred back to Tokyo from Kameari. The multiple planning meetings the investigation requires make gritty Reiko restless; she'd rather be in the field. One of Reiko's detectives, Mamoru Kusaka, interviews Takaoka's only employee, smooth, well-spoken Kosuke Mishima, who calls his dead boss "the old man." Unsatisfied with Kusaka's gentle touch, Reiko wants another shot at Mishima but must settle for his girlfriend, Michiko Nakagawa, who also happens to be his alibi. Reiko finds her nervous and drab, still grieving the shocking death of her father on a construction site months ago, and an obvious candidate for manipulation by Mishima. A parallel first-person narrative by Mishima counterpoints the investigation, filling in the picture and building to a climax. Readers should prepare for a surfeit of disconcertingly similar names: Kusaka, Kawada, Kamata, Kosuke, Kenichi, Kikuta. The seventh in Honda's series, and the second published in English, dives deep into the details of a complex investigation and the challenges facing a woman in a competitive working environment.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169811698
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	07/18/2017
Series:	Reiko Himekawa Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged

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