A police novel centered on institutional distortion within the force and the moral conflict of detectives in the field. As the investigation unfolds, justice collides with bureaucratic self-protection, and the dry prose gives weight to both crime and professional conscience.

When the night of investigation comes to an end, the detectives face both the shadow of their institution and their own uncertainty.

A hard-boiled novel in which the narrator follows the traces of a missing young woman into an urban atmosphere of decadence and violence. It sharply portrays the fragility of youth and the cold human relationships behind the incident.

A scrap of paper left by a vanished woman draws a man toward an incident hidden deep within a decaying city.