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Saturday, April 07, 2007 | 6:31 PM
 Two prostitutes have been murdered in Tokyo.Yuriko had been working as a prostitute all her adult life, starting while still at school, where her stunning beauty compensated for what she lacked in intellect and command attention from older men. Kazue worked for a blue-chip companyand had good career prospects, but was unpopular with colleagues and felt isolated. She chose to walk the streets at night where she hoped to get noticed. Twenty years previously both women were educated at an elite school for young ladies, and both exhibited exeptional promise, prior to their brutal unnecessary deaths. How and why did this tragedy occur? With narration from Yukiko's embittered, unnatractive sister and through the girls' journals and diaries, Kirino allows their shocking story to unfurl.  In the Tokyo suburbs, four women work in the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretely dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues. For reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body. The body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies - a yakuza-connected loan shark who discovers their secret, and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convicted is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a result of their crime and he is out for revenge. OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsetting reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable. For those weak-hearted, these books are not for you! But for those who love blood and gore (like me!), then go ahead and read them! I just bought Grotesque and I am eager to read it! The author's name is Natsuo Kirino if you can't really see...
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