The Devil's Diary

by Donald G. Moore

Sumiko Harada, a poverty-stricken Japanese young woman and her father find a key and a letter on the body of a woman accidentally killed on a street in Tokyo. Sumiko's father uses the key to open a train-station locker where he finds a diary written by a sadistic serial killer who believes he is Akuma , the Japanese mythological devil who can bring misfortune to all who see him. Sumiko uses the information in the letter and the dead-woman's identity to get a lucrative job at a popular nightclub where she meets Mark Kellner, an American journalist working in Japan. When the killer learns of Sumiko's ruse, Sumiko and Mark are drawn into a web of terror spun by a madman who will use any means, no matter how cruel, to get his diary before it becomes public information.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published June 11, 2007

Reviews

[Alan Matsumoto · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was attracted to this book because of the jacket cover actually. An easy read for anyone into the thriller/murder genre set in Japan. Very intriguing premise but all loose ends tied up a bit too quickly in the conclusion.