Somewhere between the laundry and cooking, she wrote her debut, Confessions, the. Minato, a homemaker and former home economics teacher, also spotlights the dysfunction that can fester beneath the tidy surface of Japanese society-as well as the searing fury of a mother’s love gone wrong. Before she became a bestselling novelist, Kanae Minato was a Japanese home economics teacher and housewife. The suspense intensifies as the entire Machiavellian web only belatedly becomes clear. Life She started writing in her thirties. But this book just gripped me round the neck and dragged me down deeper and deeper into what seemed like this dark and waterlogged well of misery and revenge. I finished Minato's Confessions yesterday, after purchasing it on Saturday. 1 2 She is a 2015 recipient of the Alex Awards. Still reeling from Kanae Minato's 'Confessions'. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. The plan’s twisted genius emerges gradually through restrained first-person chapters narrated by Yuko and other principals. Kanae Minato (, Minato Kanae, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers.

But when she subsequently discovers evidence that points to foul play, Yuko decides to draw on her knowledge of the culprits to exact retribution far more terrible than the punishment that would have been meted out to such youthful offenders by the authorities. Initially, single mother Yuko Moriguchi’s grief mixes with guilt when police rule little Manami’s death accidental she accepts the blow as yet another in a lengthy series, including the HIV-positive diagnosis that Manami’s father received during Yuko’s pregnancy, which prompted him to break off their engagement. The murder of a young science teacher’s trusting four-year-old daughter-by some of her own 13-year-old students-sets in motion a diabolic revenge plot with devastating collateral damage in Minato’s outstanding debut, which inspired the Oscar nominated film.

Confessions by Kanae Minato