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  • Published: 15 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781939130921
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00

Nan-Core




The award-winning novel by one of Japan's hottest new authors, Mahokura Numata. In the vein of Keigo Higashino and Ryu Murakami, Nan-Core (AKA: YuriGokoro) combines crime fiction and passion, this time set in modern day Japan.

What if everything you thought you knew about your family was a lie?

A young man makes a shocking discovery while visiting his parents’ home. Along with a purse and a lock of hair that may have belonged to his recently deceased mother, Ryosuke finds three journals with notes that seem to be the confessions of a murderer.

Now, he has to figure out what’s fact, what’s fiction...and who are these people he’s called “Mom” and “Dad.”

  • Published: 15 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781939130921
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00

Praise for Nan-Core

Winner of the 2012 Haruhiko Ohyabu Award for the Top Hard-Boiled or Adventure Fiction Release in Japan

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