About the Book: A Quiet Place
A thrillingly dark novel from Japans Agatha Christie (Sunday Times)
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife
Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her
death wasnt totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo,
a softly spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his
wife, who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to
haiku meetings ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo