少女的复仇

by Tetsuya Honda

东京的冷漠与残酷，少女静加的绝望与挣扎。
愿她的决绝 终能刺破这永无止境的暗黑宿命。


比肩东野圭吾的日本推理大师
300万畅销书作者
誉田哲也
扣人心弦巅峰之作！

由日本人气女星夏帆Kaho主演的人气日剧《独静加》的原著小说！


在深夜寂静的街区，一个少女消失在了黑暗里
而彼时，我还没有意识到，真正的黑暗到底有多深……

——
东京，
繁华又寂寞。

东京都小金井市东町，
一名男子惨死在家中。
当时我们都以为只是街头恩仇，
毕竟，死者是大家口中的“渣男”混混，
所有人都并未在意现场出现的种种女性痕迹。
直到……

——
20年?5个案件?一个少女
命运的轨迹从此偏离……

Paperback

First published April 12, 2012

About the author

Associated Names:
* 誉田 哲也 (Japanese profile)
* ฮนดะ เท็ตสึยะ (Thai profile)

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoy Tetsuya Honda's Reiko Himekawa series which is centered around a tough-as-nail female cop, and I think this series is one of the few hard boiled series that keeps improving itself as each book goes. However, this stand-alone book, Quiet, Alone (it's my rough translation, and the heroine's name means 'quietness' in Japanese) by the same author really doesn't work so well with me.

The concept of the story and the opening part is outstanding enough, though: a gangster is killed under mysterious condition, soon a suspect shows up and it turns out he is the one who stabbed the victim. Case closed, you think? Then you are wrong. As a curious cop digs deeper into the case, he soon realizes a young girl might be involved with the murder case.

So each of the short stories from within this book are related to this young girl, we follow the tracks she left behind from 13 years old to 31 years old, and she is always one step ahead from us and the cops.

The murder mysteries and the quest to reach for this young girl (later a young woman) and the revealing of her dark, twisted mind are rather exciting. However, I find the character's build-up very weak and inconsistent. We are told that due to the traumas she had endued in childhood, the young girl learnt to be cruel, cunning and merciless in order to survive, but we are later told that after she met a certain someone, her 9 years old half-sister, she got a 180 degree turn and now she is sacrificing herself on this certain someone's behalf? I am not convinced.

I have a feeling that Mr. Honda tried to create something similar to Journey Under the Midnight Sun, by Keigo Higashino (a melodrama novel which I consider to be only so-and-so), these two books have similar themes: abused victims turn revengeful and cruel, a beautiful woman who has a dark past, said beautiful young woman on a run from the police and her own past, leaving a trail of corpses and mysteries behind etc, but sadly he had failed.

PS: the book cover is so pretty!