This is a great book that suffers from a terrible blurb.

This is not a murder mystery, this is a character-study-cum-police-procedural-drama with a hint of whodunnit. Six Four makes up less than 20% of the book.

Nevertheless I enjoyed it. Mikami was a really interesting protagonist, and Yokoyama’s surprisingly haunting writing had me crying a few times- at the scene with the Amamiya family shrine in particular. Mikami was someone I rooted for despite his slight cowardice and slightly shitty decisions, and to see him come out his shell in the wake of his own daughter running away was nice, and to embrace his role in MR rather than detest it. The side characters were great, and there were a few solid twists

Go into this expecting a lot of workplace politics and corruption, not how they solved Six Four.