Kanae Minato
Writing
- Born
- January 1, 1973 (age 53) · Innoshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Minato Kanae is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.
She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award.
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In youth, she was an avid fan of mystery novels of Edogawa Ranpo, Maurice Leblanc, Agatha Christie, Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, and Yukito Ayatsuji.
The English edition of Minato's Confessions, published in August 2014, was described by a critic as "the Gone Girl of Japan."
Wall Street Journal selected Confessions as one of the 10 best mysteries of 2014.
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Known for
Confessions
June 4, 2010
The Snow White Murder Case
March 29, 2014
Penance
May 29, 2013
Night's Tightrope
October 8, 2016
A Chorus of Angels
November 3, 2012
Motherhood
November 23, 2022
Chain of Flowers
September 17, 2013
Bōkyō
September 28, 2016
Homecoming
September 16, 2017
3 Beautiful Lies
January 4, 2016
Circumstances
December 3, 2011
The Exchange Letter
September 30, 2016
Behind the camera13
- 2026Cry Out Novel
- 2022Motherhood Novel
- 2017Homecoming Short Story
- 2016Night's Tightrope Novel
- 2016The Exchange Letter Original Story
- 2016Bōkyō Short Story
- 20163 Beautiful Lies Novel
- 2014The Snow White Murder Case Novel
- 2013Chain of Flowers Original Story
- 2013Penance Novel