{"product_id":"9781641295697","title":"The Rope Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo detectives. Two identical women. One dead body-then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan's underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, cleansing, and sacrifice. As Togashi, a junior member of the police force, investigates the murder of a kinbaku instructor, he finds himself unable to resist his own private transgressive desires. In contrast, Togashi's Sherlock Holmesian colleague Hayama is morally upright to a fault, with a stalwart commitment to the truth and nearly superhuman powers of deduction. When Hayama notices a dangerous measure of darkness within Togashi, he embarks on a parallel investigation, which soon spirals out of control. Unflinching in its flayed-raw treatment of identity, violence, sexuality, power, the occult, and the divine, The Rope Artist is both viscerally painful and unexpectedly hopeful-a genre homage that shines\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soho Crime","offers":[{"title":"Fuminori \/ Nakamura","offer_id":48925007020346,"sku":"9781641295697","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781641295697_bad05948-c603-4552-b34e-f185607ebda4.jpg?v=1719055712","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9781641295697","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}