The Makoto Murders

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A Dexter-like thriller, in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders in order to generate the photos his magazine is eagerly ghoulishly demanding. A skewering of our darkest fantasies & obsession with true crime for fans of Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family & Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, The Serial Killer. Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow magazine in Tokyo. He achieved fame with a photograph of a boy who drowned in a tsunami, who he could have saved had he not been concerned with finding the right light & composition for his shot. Years later, he has failed to repeat that success and, facing irrelevancy, he decides to turn serial killer to generate his own attention-grabbing pictures—for which he's inevitably always first on the scene. His magazine then publishes the pictures, causing a sensation in a society where murder is almost unheard of. Hoping to impress his colleague's estranged wife Makoto, who he is stalking after a short affair, Kato murders only people with the same name as her. His editor is suspicious, but is willing to ignore the evidence in front of him as sales boom. A satire on where ambition will take us, as well as our ghoulish obsession with serial killers (especially if they're good-looking & charismatic), The Makoto Murders asks plenty of uncomfortable questions of the reader while never forgetting it's first & foremost a page-turning thriller.

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