Six Four

8 hrs. 40 min.

Language Russian

Author Hideo Yokoyama

Narrator Alexander Aravushkin

Description

The best Japanese detective novel of 2003. Based on the novel, the best film of 2005 was made according to the Japanese Academy. The killer confessed. All the evidence is there. But the investigation is only beginning. A scandal? A disgrace? A catastrophe? No, it’s still worse. A Japanese police inspector committed murder—strangled his wife, and did it at her own request. At the same time, he didn’t commit suicide to save his honor; instead, he turned himself in and made a confession.

In the Land of the Rising Sun, such a thing is unimaginable. That’s why both the police and the prosecutor’s office and the court are trying to close this toxic case as quickly as possible and somehow preserve face.

In the end, everything is clear: the criminal confessed, and there is more than enough evidence. But there is one important “however.” Two whole days passed between the murder and the confession—and the criminal refuses outright to talk about them. It turns out that after leaving his wife’s body, he went somewhere. Where and why? What was happening at that time? What is the killer hiding? Six people are trying to answer these questions: the investigator, the prosecutor, the lawyer, the journalist, the judge, and the prison guard.