５人のジュンコ

by Yukiko Mari, 真梨 幸子

あの女さえ、いなければ──。篠田淳子は中学時代の同級生、佐竹純子が伊豆連続不審死事件の容疑者となっていることをニュースで知る。同じ「ジュンコ」という名前の彼女こそ、淳子の人生を、そして淳子の家族を崩壊させた張本人だった。親友だった女、被害者の家族、事件を追うジャーナリストのアシスタント……。同じ名前だったがゆえに、彼女たちは次々と悪意の渦に巻き込まれていく。 (徳間文庫)

283 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 3, 2016

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yukiko Mari really can do better than this, I know it.

5 Junkos is a 200 pages novel about five different women whose names all happen to be pronounced as 'Junko' in Japanese, and in some secret ways, the paths of these five women are overlapped somehow...and we soon find out one of those women is the prime suspect of a serial murder cases.

The strong points of this novel is the realism and the description of the different relationships these five women had with their husbands, lovers, friends and coworkers. I can easily relate with these women and the situations/troubles they are in. However, the murder mystery in the novel is pretty lukewarm. So, 3 stars only.

[Jsincity · Rating 4 out of 5]

如果說桐野夏生寫的惡女是一道悠長的法國料理的話，那真梨幸子寫的惡女大概就像是肯德基的XL重量級套餐。

重油，快速，不囉嗦，一路都在飆車，我甚至可以在字裡行間裡看到作者的不耐煩，「這樣寫你們應該懂吧！應該都懂吧！！？好，不囉嗦！GOGOGOGO」

看到最後大家（再一次重申，大家就是我自己）根本都在猜這一章節誰要遇害，我只差沒在我的想像空間裡設一個按鈕式的電動投票箱，高高的椅背邊上長滿了大大的七彩霓虹燈泡，按下按鈕的瞬間會有夾子大樂隊的音樂，

「猜錯了！！！！」然後噴出大量的乾冰，裡面有時候會夾雜著純度不一的胡椒水，然後主持人（或說作者）會以極快的語速（大概一秒27個字那麼快）說著下一個情節

五個純子，五種陰暗，飆車般的致鬱，但我總覺得我的喘不過氣來有那麼一點點的喜感

我喜歡這個作者，畢竟～～～肯德基真的很好吃啊！！！