From 'a master crime writer' (Financial Times), a chilling story where Japanese tradition and Western crime collide - now available in English for the first time
Musashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play - but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of silence.
At the centre of it all stands a foreign priest and the Guglielmo Church, a charitable Christian mission. The dead woman's connection to the church is undeniable. But what begins as a routine investigation quickly turns into something far more treacherous, entangling together narcotics, post-war relief schemes and the delicate web of international diplomacy.
As the story moves from back alleys to diplomatic sanctuaries, following the twists and turns of Detective Fujisawa's investigation, Seicho Matsumoto masterfully constructs a slow-burning procedural where truth is clear but justice is not permitted.
Translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood
| ISBN: | 9780241688748 |
| Publication date: | 7th May 2026 |
| Author: | Seicho Matsumoto |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 464 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic crime and mystery fiction Crime and mystery: police procedural Fiction in translation |
From 'a master crime writer' (Financial Times), a chilling story where Japanese tradition and Western crime collide - now available in English for the first time
Musashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play - but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of silence.
At the centre of it all stands a foreign priest and the Guglielmo Church, a charitable Christian mission. The dead woman's connection to the church is undeniable. But what begins as a routine investigation quickly turns into something far more treacherous, entangling together narcotics, post-war relief schemes and the delicate web of international diplomacy.
As the story moves from back alleys to diplomatic sanctuaries, following the twists and turns of Detective Fujisawa's investigation, Seicho Matsumoto masterfully constructs a slow-burning procedural where truth is clear but justice is not permitted.
Translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood
Twilight in Musashino features in the following genres: Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Fiction in translation
Twilight in Musashino is available in Paperback
Twilight in Musashino was written by Seicho Matsumoto and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Twilight in Musashino has 464 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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