Kanae Minato

Kanae Minato is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers, born in Innoshima, Hiroshima. A former housewife who began writing in her thirties, she became one of Japan's bestselling novelists with her debut Confessions (2008), which won the Japanese Booksellers Award and was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film. She is known in Japan as the 'queen of iyamisu' for her dark psychological mystery style.