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Four women who work the night shift at a Tokyo boxed-lunch factory find their lives bound together when one of them, Yayoi, strangles her abusive husband and Masako, the coolest head among them, agrees to help get rid of the body.
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Real World
One summer in suburban Tokyo, Toshi's neighbour, a teenage boy her friends call Worm, kills his mother and runs, taking Toshi's bicycle and mobile phone, and she and three school friends are each drawn in.
Mystic River
Three childhood friends in Boston are reunited by the murder of one of their daughters, and the investigation reopens wounds from a trauma they shared as boys.
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Matt Scudder, a sober ex-cop working as an unlicensed private eye in New York, takes a job looking into a wealthy man suspected of killing his wife, and stumbles onto something worse.
A Simple Plan
Two brothers and a friend stumble on a crashed plane full of cash in a snowy Minnesota field, and the decision to keep it destroys all of them.
Galveston
A New Orleans enforcer told he has lung cancer drives a runaway teenage girl to Galveston, and the Gulf Coast holds them for the few days before the men who want him dead arrive.
In the Miso Soup
Kenji, who guides foreign tourists through Tokyo's sex clubs, is hired for the three nights before New Year's Eve by Frank, an American whose odd behaviour makes Kenji wonder whether he is behind the murder of a schoolgirl.
The Plotters
Raised in a library that fronts for an assassination agency, a Seoul contract killer breaks the rules on a job and becomes a target of the plotters who design the hits.
Batman: Year One
Bruce Wayne's first year in the cowl runs alongside Jim Gordon's first year as an honest cop in a rotten Gotham police department, in a spare, street-level retelling of how it began.
Down the River Unto the Sea
Joe King Oliver, a New York detective framed and thrown off the force, now a private investigator, gets a letter that sets him looking into his own case and that of a Black journalist on death row.
Clockers
A young Jersey City crack lieutenant and a tired homicide detective circle each other after a drug-corner murder nobody is straight about, in Price's taped-from-the-kerb prose.
The Black Echo
LAPD detective Harry Bosch recognises the body found in a drainage pipe near the Mulholland Dam as Billy Meadows, who fought beside him as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, and the case leads to a bank vault robbed from below the city and an uneasy partnership with FBI agent Eleanor Wish.
Blacktop Wasteland
Beauregard 'Bug' Montague runs an honest garage in rural Virginia and has left behind the getaway driving that made him a legend. With the garage failing and bills mounting, he agrees to drive for one last job, a jewellery store robbery.