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The Devotion of Suspect X
by Keigo Higashino
'The Devotion of Suspect X', by Japanese author Keigo Higashino, is an amazing police procedural puzzler of a mystery! Not the crime itself - the murder victim and the murderer are revealed in the first chapter. It is during the investigations of the murder by two other characters after the murder that even more shocking discoveries are made.
This book is best if read cold, without reading the cover blurbs or reviews. Either stop here, or if you must, gentle reader, I will continue.
When I started this novel, a recommendation from Poonam (Ok, if I mention, Poonam?), I did not have any idea about the novel. Later, I learned it is #3 in the Detective Galileo series. It absolutely can be read as a standalone, and I want to read the other books in the series. There were no issues regarding the translation from Japanese to English.
Manabu Yukawa is nicknamed “Detective Galileo” by Tokyo detective Kusanagi. Yukawa is a physics professor who also is a genius. On some previous case, Kusanagi met Yukawa, discovering how adept the professor is at solving tricky crimes, so Kusanagi sometimes drops by the professor's classroom or laboratory to visit.
Shinji Togashi's body is discovered by the Old Edogawa River by the police. Unknown to the detectives, his ex-wife Yasuko Hanaoka and her daughter from a previous marriage, Misato, killed him. But Togashi was a terrible person and he had been trying to force Yasuko to give him money - again. Yasuko had moved several times to hide from Togashi, but he always found her. This last time, though, there is a violent struggle and both Misato and Yasuko kill him. Their next door neighbor, Ishigama, who is a math teacher, hears it all. He has an unrequited crush on Yasuko. He tells Yasuko that he will take the body away and help her hide all evidence of the crime. She agrees. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game, or perhaps, a chess game, which I think may be the more apt analogy, between the murderers and the police, and between Yukawa and Ishigama. It is an amazing coincidence, but Yukawa and Ishigama were friends in college, having been drawn together because both of them were the geniuses of the school.
I LOVED this novel! Thank you Poonam for the recommendation.
This book is best if read cold, without reading the cover blurbs or reviews. Either stop here, or if you must, gentle reader, I will continue.
When I started this novel, a recommendation from Poonam (Ok, if I mention, Poonam?), I did not have any idea about the novel. Later, I learned it is #3 in the Detective Galileo series. It absolutely can be read as a standalone, and I want to read the other books in the series. There were no issues regarding the translation from Japanese to English.
Manabu Yukawa is nicknamed “Detective Galileo” by Tokyo detective Kusanagi. Yukawa is a physics professor who also is a genius. On some previous case, Kusanagi met Yukawa, discovering how adept the professor is at solving tricky crimes, so Kusanagi sometimes drops by the professor's classroom or laboratory to visit.
Shinji Togashi's body is discovered by the Old Edogawa River by the police. Unknown to the detectives, his ex-wife Yasuko Hanaoka and her daughter from a previous marriage, Misato, killed him. But Togashi was a terrible person and he had been trying to force Yasuko to give him money - again. Yasuko had moved several times to hide from Togashi, but he always found her. This last time, though, there is a violent struggle and both Misato and Yasuko kill him. Their next door neighbor, Ishigama, who is a math teacher, hears it all. He has an unrequited crush on Yasuko. He tells Yasuko that he will take the body away and help her hide all evidence of the crime. She agrees. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game, or perhaps, a chess game, which I think may be the more apt analogy, between the murderers and the police, and between Yukawa and Ishigama. It is an amazing coincidence, but Yukawa and Ishigama were friends in college, having been drawn together because both of them were the geniuses of the school.
I LOVED this novel! Thank you Poonam for the recommendation.