Nonami, Asa,  1960- <br/><br/>
The hunter :  a Detective Takako Otomichi mystery / 
Asa Nonami ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Tokyo ;  New York :  [S.l] :  Kodansha International ;  Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America,  2006. 
 - 269 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Translation of: Kogoeru kiba.  "Originally published Shinchosha, Tokyo, in 1996 under the title: Kogoeru kiba"--T.p. verso. 
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<br/><br/> Takako Otomichi, battling the disapproval of her family and prejudice against women on the job, takes on her first assignment as a detective to investigate the death of a Tokyo businessman who burst into flames while dining in a restaurant, and whose body bears bite marks similar to those found in a string of homicides. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9784770030252 (hardcover) 4770030258 (harcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006023086 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women detectives--Fiction.<br/>Serial murderers--Fiction.<br/>Women detectives--Fiction.<br/>Serial killers--Fiction.<br/>Mystery fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction.<br/>Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PL857.O494  / K6413 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>895.6/35