This revenge tale, set in a middle school in a small town, explores issues relating to morality, justice and child crime. It’s a cracking story about adolescence gone wrong, with lots of unexpected plot twists and horrifying outcomes, but it’s probably one of the darkest books I’ve read in quite awhile.Īnd having read it back-to-back with another dark story of vengeance - Harriet Lane’s Her - I think that’s my quota of malicious tales done for the year. Kanae Minato’s debut novel, Confessions, is no exception. The Japanese do a nice line in dark fiction, whether crime or otherwise - think Keigo Higashino, Shuichi Yoshida, Fuminori Nakamura, Natsuo Kirino and Yoko Ogawa, to name just a handful. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. Fiction – Kindle edition Mulholland Books 240 pages 2014.
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