![]() Penance (original title: Shokuzai), trans.Confessions (original title: Kokuhaku), trans.Wall Street Journal selected Confessions as one of the 10 best mysteries of 2014. The English edition of Minato's Confessions, published in August 2014, was described by a critic as "the Gone Girl of Japan." The back cover blurb of the Japanese edition of Gone Girl, published in June 2013, was "One of the best iyamisu novels from overseas." Kanae Minato, Mahokaru Numata and Yukiko Mari are regarded as representatives of the genre in Japan. There has been an iyamisu boom in Japan since around 2012. The term was created in 2006 by the mystery critic Aoi Shimotsuki. Readers blurt out "eww" when they are reading iyamisu novels. She has been described in Japan as "the queen of iyamisu." Iyamisu (eww mystery) is a subgenre of mystery fiction which deals with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature. In youth she was an avid fan of mystery novels of Edogawa Ranpo, Maurice Leblanc, Agatha Christie, Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe and Yukito Ayatsuji. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. ![]() ![]() She is a 2015 recipient of the Alex Awards. ![]() She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. Kanae Minato ( 湊かなえ, Minato Kanae, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. ![]()
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