We all have confessions; some we wish to keep close and some we want the world to know. What would happen if our secrets suddenly became common knowledge? By reading Confessions by Kanae Minato we don’t have to guess. In Confessions as the readers we become the victim, the murders, and the outside party; all while trying to piece together information to see the larger connection.This morbid but hard to put down novel begins on the last day of a middle school teacher who’s saying farewell to her homeroom class. This teacher, Yūko Moriguchi, has just recently suffered the loss of her daughter. And while telling her students why she became a teacher and other tidbits about her life she lets them know two people in the class killed her daughter