A rare trip to the library on Saturday. This is extremely good and he has written a few more.
A sort of modern Japanese Miss Marple. Extremely elegant plotting, perhaps (I don’t know) typically Japanese. The plot moves quite slowly from the fairly mundane (various guests arrive at a hotel) into ecological issues (a controversial conference about commercial exploitation of the seabed) and one expects any violence to begin around anger, or greed, around this issue. But that is really a diversion.
The plot hangs around an adulterous affair some 20 years ago and the downstream impact on various characters and actions taken in the present. The ‘Miss Marple’ character is a physicist who is a guest both at the hotel and the conference who has appeared in previous books.
Very good quality writing.
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