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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


A Quiet Place by Louise Heal Kawai

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A Quiet Place, August 2016
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A Quiet Place
Louise Heal Kawai, Seicho Matsumoto

Bitter Lemon Press
August 2016
On Sale: August 16, 2016
Featuring: Tsuneo Asai; Eiko
224 pages
ISBN: 1908524634
EAN: 9781908524638
Kindle: B01DV1YH8U
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While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn’t totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife—who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings—ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?

When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife’s death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life...

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