The Summer of the Ubume

About this book

In Japanese folklore a ghost that arise from the burial of a pregnant woman is an Ubume. The Summer of Ubume is the first of Japans hugely popular Kyogokudo series which has 9 titles and 4 spinoffs thus far. Akihiko "Kyogokudo" Chuzenji the titles hero is an exorcist with a twist: he doesnt blieve in ghosts. To circumnavigate his clients inability to come to grips with a problem being their own he creates fake supernatural explanations--ghosts--that he the "exorcises" by way of staged rituals. His patients belief that he has vanquished the ghost creating their problems cures them. In this first adventure Kyogokudo must unravel the mystery of a woman who has been pregnant for 20 months and find her husband who disappeared two months into the pregnancy. And unravel he does in the books final disturbing scene.