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This is the island where I have lived since I was a child. The people here are simple and ignorant. Hatred breeds here and pain is soothed here. But one day I will leave it. A best-selling female writer who has been stigmatized by elopement and has not returned home for twenty-five years; Meng Duzi, who lives in the shadow of her grandma, and any happiness is a betrayal of her past suffering; a rookie singer who is bullied because she is the son of a murderer; a girl who is isolated by the class... Those who are hurt by their hometown, those who are comforted, those who leave with secret sins, and those who have no choice but to stay, it is their hometown that makes them what they are today.

"Confession" is a long mystery novel that explores the issue of juvenile delinquency. It mainly revolves around the unreasonableness of the minor protection law, and through the interrogation of the reasons for the crimes of two juveniles, it questions the shortcomings of education in Japan today, the adverse social environment factors for the growth of teenagers, etc. Among the shocking campus crimes, who is the culprit among teachers, parents, and students? Is using violence to fight violence a defense of good, or a promotion of evil? As a single mother, a female middle school teacher raised her daughter alone, but her four-year-old daughter accidentally drowned in the school swimming pool. She did not choose to call the police. After private investigation, she found that her daughter was killed by two students in her class. Why do students murder classmates? What action will the female teacher take?

The masterpiece of Kanae Minato, author of "Confessions" and Japan's Queen of Cruel Mysteries! Growing up with a sense of guilt, he spent his whole life trying to atone for sins that did not belong to him. "Find me the murderer. If you can't find it, use a method that satisfies me to atone for your sins!" Amelie, a girl from Tokyo, died. Faced with the questioning from Amélie's mother, the four girls who were at the scene of the murder could not give an answer anyway. Everyone clearly remembers the details of that day, except the murderer's appearance. After this brutal murder, the lives of several people seemed to come to a complete halt on that hot summer day. For fifteen years, everyone was trying to atone for their sins in their own way. They escape, deceive, suspect, harm themselves, and even commit murder in the endless sense of guilt. Fifteen years later, they revealed each and every suffocating secret in their heart-stopping confessions, restoring the full picture of the case that year. Until then, the murderer finally surfaced. The real "atonement" has just begun...

The ultimate mystery that shakes the value of family love! Kanae Minato, a popular Japanese writer, is a new suspenseful masterpiece following "Confession", "For N" and "Girl". Everyone is happy that the missing sister is back, but only I know that she is a fake. Struggling in the process of distinguishing between truth and falsehood, when the final answer is revealed, will the truth you have been seeking most bring more cruel harm? The "ultimate mystery" that has a strong shock to values ​​​​appears in surprise! Kanae Minato is a high-profile mystery novelist in Japan. In 2007, the short story "The Priest" won the 29th Japan Mystery Novel Newcomer Award. In 2008, his debut novel "Confessions" was published. In the same year, it was selected as the first domestic original work in the "Weekly Top Ten Mystery Novels", and won the 6th Hong Kong Grand Prize in 2009. In 2012, he won the 65th Japan Mystery Writers Association Award (Short Story) for "Looking Homeward and Star of the Sea".