Riku Onda’s The Aosawa Murders is one of the best books in any genre I’ve read all year. Set in a fictional Japanese city, it follows the aftermath of a mass poisoning that totaled 17 deaths, nearly wiping out the entire Aosawa family. The police believe they have their killer when a young deliveryman commits suicide, leaving behind a mysterious note that appears to confess to the www.doorway.ru: Riku Onda. · E arly in The Aosawa Murders, Riku Onda writes that “it’s impossible to ever really know the truth behind events,” setting the tone of the mystery surrounding a horrible mass murder in s Japan in which seventeen people are poisoned by cyanide after drinking a toast with sake and soft drinks. What starts as a jovial birthday party for three generations of the Aosawa family ends in the family, Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · The Aosawa Murders, originally published in under the title Eugenia, is Riku Onda’s English-language debut and her first crime novel. She’s been writing since , however, so this novel isn’t the product of a novice author/5().
The Aosawa Murders - Kindle edition by Onda, Riku, Watts, Alison. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Aosawa Murders. The Aosawa Murders, by Riku Onda "I'll tell you the truth, as I know it." Generally I don't reread crime/mystery novels because I can only be surprised once, but this is no ordinary crime/mystery novel, and it affected me much more the second time through. Riku Onda, born in , is the professional name of Nanae Kumagai. She has been writing fiction since and has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel for The Aosawa Murders, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Naoki Prize.
Riku Onda’s The Aosawa Murders is one of the best books in any genre I’ve read all year. Set in a fictional Japanese city, it follows the aftermath of a mass poisoning that totaled 17 deaths, nearly wiping out the entire Aosawa family. The police believe they have their killer when a young deliveryman commits suicide, leaving behind a mysterious note that appears to confess to the slaying. E arly in The Aosawa Murders, Riku Onda writes that “it’s impossible to ever really know the truth behind events,” setting the tone of the mystery surrounding a horrible mass murder in s Japan in which seventeen people are poisoned by cyanide after drinking a toast with sake and soft drinks. What starts as a jovial birthday party for three generations of the Aosawa family ends in the family, their relatives, and friends dying in agony. The Aosawa Murders might be rooted in an event in an unnamed seaside city in , but it stretches three decades beyond that, to examine how the recollection of an event changes its meaning. Rika Onda’s crime novel was published in Japan in , but wasn’t made available in English until
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