The Star at Dawn

During the National High School Cultural Festival ceremony, Yoshiyuki Shimizu - the current Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and a literary giant - was fatally stabbed by a man who rushed out from backstage. The arrested suspect, 37-year-old Akatsuki Nagase, began publishing his memoirs in a weekly magazine following his arrest. His writings revealed a deep-seated grudge against "the World Philanthropic Federation of Light," (commonly known as The Church of Light), a new religious organization with which Shimizu was allegedly deeply involved. What was Nagase's true motive lurking in the darkness?

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Good divergence from Confessions

The duality of perspectives is on par with a prestige, trust level of book but 75% shorter! One of my fav authors

its fiction within fiction

Its truly interesting to go from memoirs to fiction in a story thats completely fictional. I dont know how accurate the translation is but the story was entertaining, and linear without being linear.