American Fiction Awards Finalist
* Best Mystery Novel *
* Best New Fiction *
National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist
* Best Suspense Novel *
* Best West Region Fiction *
“A gripping high-stakes drama infused with a dash of humor…Get it.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A heart-pounding romp. Read it.”
—Barry Lancet, author of Japantown
“Melds the humor of Silicon Valley with the fast-paced action of a John Grisham thriller.”
—Iris Yamashita, author of City Under One Roof
“Witty, wry, and Chandleresque—and deadly satisfying.”
—Simon Rowe, author of Mami Suzuki: Private Eye
“Keeps you perched on the edge of your seat, even eliciting bursts of incredulous laughter.”
—Rebecca Copeland, author of The Kimono Tattoo
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DC Palter is a startup founder and venture investor, with twenty-five years experience leading tech companies.
He’s the editor-in-chief of Japonica, a journal of Japanese culture, and author of Colloquial Kansai Japanese, a guidebook to the Osaka dialect of Japanese.
Two-time winner of the Little Tokyo fiction award for stories in both English and Japanese, his first novel, To Kill a Unicorn, was named Best New Fiction and Best Mystery finalist in the American Fiction Awards.
