Day 5: Blurb Intro

This is the blurb that will appear on the back cover of Widow’s Weeds:

Helen Motosu is in deep mourning after the death of her husband, private investigator Shigeru Motosu. Restricted to caring for her young children and keeping her brother-in-law from his self-destructive habits, Helen feels stagnant and unchallenged.

Until the charismatic Mitsuo Okabe requests the Motosus' help in solving the murder of his brother, an energy scientist working on a solar-powered bullet train. The main suspect is a Russian prostitute who was with Dr. Okabe the night he died. Mitsuo knows that his brother had enemies in the city, rivals in the development of new energy technologies. The Russian refuses to cooperate with the Japanese police, but perhaps another foreign woman can convince her to reveal what she witnessed that night.

Helen has never actively investigated anything on her own. To solve this rime, she must navigate Japan's scientific circles while maintaining her own precarious social position. Without her, an innocent woman could lose her life, and a violent murderer will be free to kill again.