On his way back to central Tokyo from the murder scene, Toyoda meets his friend, Detective Hara, and they end up in a tavern talking about their respective cases.
The first victim of a serial killer targeting young foreign hostesses in Tokyo is discovered, so Detective Inspector Akira Toyoda heads to a rundown area of the city to start the investigation.
This poem is dedicated to a blind busker who plays the erhu, a two-stringed vertical fiddle, outside a subway station in Shangha every evening of the year.
A serial killer is targeting young foreign women working as hostesses in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. But Detective Inspector Akira Toyoda, who grew up in the north of England, is out to stop him.