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My current book: OUT

By Natsuo Kirino

In the Tokyo suburbs, 4 women work in the draining graveyard shift at a boxed lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues. For reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks help of the other co-workers to disember and dispose of the body.

The body parts are discovered, the police started asking questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies-a yakuza-connected loan shark who discovers their secret, and a ruthless nightclib owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a result of their crime and is out for revenge.