{"product_id":"kagami-toshiko-mizuno-9798176171488","title":"Kagami: The Chronicles of Rei Kuroda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNine girls were murdered. Forty-one years later, they came back.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout warning, nine young women appear standing on the surface of Shiomizaki Bay. Dressed in white. Heads bowed. Silent and motionless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone can see them. Cameras can record them. Instruments can measure them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut no one can explain them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetired detective Masato Shibata can identify them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1985, nine schoolgirls were murdered in Shiomizaki. Their bodies were found, but their killer was never brought to justice. Shibata spent decades haunted by the case-and by the suspicion that the truth had been closer than anyone realized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the dead have returned to the city that failed them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Rei Kuroda and Miho Takahashi join Shibata and the police investigation, fragments of a forty-one-year-old mystery begin rising to the surface: forgotten photographs, buried evidence, old lies, and a connection to a man whose life has moved far beyond the events of 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the Nine begin to move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey do not speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey don't have to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome crimes are buried by time.\u003cbr\u003eSome memories refuse to stay buried.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Toshiko Mizuno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798176171488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d","brand":"Toshiko Mizuno","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780107440383,"sku":"9798176171488","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kagami-toshiko-mizuno-9798176171488","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}