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  • The Last Train

  • Detective Hiroshi, Volume 1
  • By: Michael Pronko
  • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
  • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The Last Train

By: Michael Pronko
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
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Summary

In Tokyo, murder’s easy to hide. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white-collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder. A glimpse from a security camera video suggests the killer might be a woman. Hiroshi quickly learns how close homicide and suicide can appear in a city full of high-speed trains just a step - or a push - away.

Takamatsu drags Hiroshi out to the hostess clubs and skyscraper offices of Tokyo in search of the killer. Hiroshi goes deeper and deeper into Tokyo’s intricate, perilous market for buying and selling the most expensive land in the world. He teams up with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi to scour Tokyo’s sacred temples, corporate offices, and industrial wastelands to find out why one woman was driven to murder.

After years in America and lost in neat, clean spreadsheets, Hiroshi confronts the stark realities of the biggest city in the world, where inside information can travel in a flash from the insiders at top investment firms to street-level punks and teenage hostesses, everyone scrambling for their cut of Tokyo’s lucrative land deals. Hiroshi’s determined to cut through Japan’s ambiguities - and dangers - to find the murdering ex-hostess before she extracts her final revenge - which just might be him.

©2017 Michael Pronko (P)2021 Michael Pronko
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Intriguing murder mystery

The overall story is a great idea but I found myself a little bored at the slow pace and unfortunately it struggled to keep my attention.
I enjoyed the narration. Peter has a great narrating tone and is very easy to listen to although I would prefer a little more distinction between some of the character voices.
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awful. awful. boring. pointless. awful.

the review requires 15 words, so here they are. awful. awful. boring. pointless. awful. mind-numbing.

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