Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmetcook and serial killer,and the journalist intenton cracking her case,inspiredby a true story

There are two thingsthat I simply cannot tolerate:feminists and margarine.

Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with herdelicioushome cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination, but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertai...