Portal of the Wind — Shizuko Natsuki

It begins with a murder that seems never to have happened... A famous Japanese artist is hacked to death by a rejected apprentice. A young man dies in a traffic accident that may or may not have been suicide. A young woman sees a photograph in a magazine and is powerfully drawn to a man she has never met. A daughter mourning her father's death begins to suspect a tragedy she cannot name. Japan's leading mystery writer weaves a web of suspense around these seemingly unrelated episodes.