In the StoryThe Shinjuku Equation
He confesses to a murder. The victim is still alive. In Tokyo, Tatsuya Onda brings the police a precise memory of a crime. For Arai and Sakamoto, his account is a puzzle: places, times, verifiable details—and a woman, Mika Shiraishi, who has not been killed. Should they protect a possible victim or watch a man who has done nothing yet?
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“Hoshino is challenging our use of the end of the confession,” Kuroda said. “From the moment you tell him the dressing wasn’t public knowledge, she considers everything he says afterward potentially contaminated by what he understands of our investigation.”Read the excerpt ↗