《Imitation Crime》Introduction to the original novel

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《Imitation Crime》Introduction to the original novel

A brutal murder occurred in Tokyo, and the severed hands of young women were randomly discarded in public places. The case immediately attracted widespread public attention.Soon, a mysterious man called and claimed that he was responsible for the severed hand incident. He kept calling the media, revealing details of the crime, or mocking the police's ability to do things, and then boldly made predictions about murder.However, on the night of the original crime, two suspects fell off a cliff and died.The incident seems to have ended here, but everything has just begun...

Plot introduction

A girl disappeared, and soon someone found her severed right hand, and the case began...

Mariko Furukawa, the granddaughter of Yoshio Arima who had been running a tofu shop in the suburbs of Tokyo, suddenly disappeared. Ten months later, someone found a female clutch and a severed right hand in Okawa Park along the Sumida River.Japanese television stations and newspapers carried out large-scale reports on this incident, and all Japanese people were paying attention to the progress of the incident.

“I am the man who threw his right hand into Okawa Park. Don’t you want to report on this incident anymore?” Suddenly a call came to the TV station's live program team.“The owners of the handbag and the right hand are two different people. The owner of the handbag is a woman named Furukawa Mariko.”As this unexpected case progresses, people are becoming more and more surprised.The criminal called the program team more than once and talked excitedly about the case. The criminal not only laughed at the media who reported the case, but also laughed at the audience who were excited by the content of the case.Soon, the body of Mariko Furukawa was found at the place where the criminal told the media... “live broadcast my crime.”

The criminal who called the live broadcast team predicted another horrific event that night. This was an unprecedented “murder plan”.The whole of Japan was fascinated by this case.The day of the announcement has finally arrived, and everyone is fighting against reason and standing motionless in front of the TV.Then, the reporting began…

Two suspects died in a car accident!

Will the case end so simply?

The police confirmed that the bodies of the men driving the car that crashed into the cliff were Hiromi Kuribashi and Kazaki Takai.A large amount of evidence related to the serial kidnapping and murder case was found in Kuribashi Hiromi's room.The police announced that they were likely the culprits; the media reported positively on the two men's crimes; and there was renewed uproar.

The man who claimed to be the suspect's friend began to tell the case on TV: “The real criminal is still alive”, so people began to wait for the terrifying ending.

“Yes, I think the criminal is someone else.” Just when most people thought that Hiromi and Kazuaki who died in a car accident were criminals, a man made a debut and appeared in front of the media. This is Koichi Anikawa, a criminal psychologist who graduated from Yale University.He was a classmate of Haomei and Heming in middle school. His nickname at that time was “Peace” because he looked like Heping when he smiled.“He Ming” believes that He Ming is guilty of an unfounded crime and there is another real criminal.“Peace” participated in many TV programs, advocating his own theory of the existence of “the real murderer.”Soon, his persuasive ideas, handsome appearance and rational conversation swept the whole of Japan...

Who is the real criminal that “Peace” thinks?

Will Arima and Shiko, who have lost their loved ones, pursue the real murderer?

The perpetrator, the victim, the will, the police and the media, everyone who can see it is all involved, and the story enters a very impactful ending...

About the author

Miyuki Miyabe was born in December 1960 in Koto-ku, Tokyo.1987 - My Neighbors of Crime - won the 26th ALL Reading Mystery Novel Newcomer Award.《Sleeping Dragon》won the 45th Japan Mystery Writers Association Award.1993 - Train - won the 6th Yamamoto Ishirō Award.In 1999 - reason - won the 120th Naoki Award.She is also the author of 《Seven Levels》, 《Rain in the Underground Street》, 《The Incident at Kasumei》, 《Crossfire》, and 《The Fool》 and many other books.

This book won the Special Prize at the 55th Mainichi Publishing Culture Awards in 2001 and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award at the 55th Art Awards in 2002.Moreover, the creative activities represented by this book won the fifth Shiba Ryotaro Award.

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