ELLROY READS – Out by Natsuo Kirino

For the latest episode of Ellroy Reads I delve into global crime fiction with a look at Natsuo Kirino’s modern Japanese classic Out. The story follows four women who work at a Bento packing plant. Their grinding day to day existence suddenly becomes both grisly and dangerous when, in a emergency, they need to dispose of a corpse.

Out is both a modern feminist crime novel and grand guignol feast for the imagination. Things get gruesome. But I won’t say anymore here, find out more in the video below, and hit that subscribe button. It’s just a button. It won’t electrocute you.