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<p><b>From bestselling author of </b><i><b>If Cats Disappeared from the World</b></i><b> comes a taut psychological mystery based on a real-life crime for fans of </b><i><b>Butter</b></i><b> and </b><i><b>Diary of a Void</b></i><b>.</b><br>She works quietly in a coastal shipyard office, barely noticed by those around her. Life passes in grey repetition until one day, on the side of a road, she sees something that changes everything: a black horse, still and watching.<br>From that moment, something begins to shift.<br>As her obsession deepens, so does the double life she builds in secret. What begins with a quiet longing grows into something far more dangerous - and far more difficult to control.<br><i>Horse</i> is a haunting, slow-burning psychological novel about the hunger for freedom in a world that insists on keeping women small. With echoes of <i>Butter</i> and <i>Diary of a Void</i>, it probes the uneasy space between yearning and transgression, beauty and brutality, and asks how far a person will go for the one thing that makes them feel alive.<br>A tense and mesmerising Japanese mystery where desire, silence, and power collide.</p>