Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki Contemporary Fiction ”— Town & Country

”— Town & Country

There is a lot in this story to unpack around death

leaves an indelible impression

one man’s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives

periods of furious creativity

Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki Contemporary Fiction ”— Town & CountryThe cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nations imagination but