I just finished reading Natsuo Kirino's new crime novel called Out and, despite the good reviews, was not impressed. According to the inside cover, this is her first novel that appeared in English but otherwise she is a major crime story star in Japan.
Well, maybe but I did not find the novel so articulate or particularly exciting. It is about some housewifes slaving away at a fast food factory who, when one of them chokes her husband with a belt in a fit of rage, decide to help their friend dispose of the body. The "obvious" solution that comes to their mind is to chop the body up in the bathroom and then put the chunks out in the trash.
The best part of the book was when having gone through all this they began getting similar work from some yakuza connection. They started a business of disposing bodies by chopping them into pieces. I thought this was a much-needed addition into the otherwise uninteresting narrative. This part had some humor in it.
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