About the Book: Guilt
A tour de force crime novel from one of the international masters of the form,
where a simple murder case questions the simple notions of good and evil, guilt
and redemption.
A body has been found on a Central Tokyo riverbank, and Homicide Detective Godai
of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is assigned to investigate. The
victim is identified as a lawyer, Kensuke Shiraishi, and Godai's investigations
lead him to one Tatsuro Kuraki, who ends up confessing to not only to the
lawyer's murder, but also another one from thirty years ago - for which another
man was arrested and died in custody before