STRANGULATION: Kubishime Romanticist


STRANGULATION: Kubishime Romanticist

by NISIOISIN, art by take

Crime & Mystery Fiction
Paperback, 322 pages 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

978-1-945054-83-9 Buy.

U.S.$14.95 / CAN$17.95

It’s easy to love a person but difficult to continue doing so. Just as murdering a person is easy but continuing to do so is difficult. Unable, probably innately, to look away from the truth under any circumstances, a sincere, honest guy who’s lived thus far without grasping the notion of deceit—namely me—encountered in May a serial killer named Hitoshiki Zerozaki. He was a knife of a will, a knife of a dynamic, and a knife of nonsense.


NISIOISIN is the top-selling novelist year by year in his native Japan. A follow-up to his unforgettable debut novel Decapitation, this revised North American edition of Kubishime Romanticist features a new cover and color insert by beloved series illustrator take.

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