![]() ![]() ![]() Malice is a perfect example of how Higashino can trick readers into gobbling up a helluva entertaining story that’s also an in-depth character study and psychological thesis. He happens to know Ishigami from school (always a bad sign in these books), and when he hears there was a potential murder in Ishigami’s apartment building, Yukawa’s spidey senses start tingling. ![]() The characters in question here are Tetsuya Ishigami, a high school math teacher, and Manabu Yukawa, AKA “Detective Galileo.” Yukawa isn’t really a detective instead, he’s a physicist who occasionally moonlights as a police consultant. It’s the third novel in Higashino’s popular Detective Galileo series, but can be read as a standalone.Īs with many of Higashino’s mysteries, The Devotion of Suspect X isn’t so much a whodunnit as a psychological study wrapped inside a tense cat-and-mouse game played out between two characters. It won an avalanche of awards, including the Naoki Prize for Best Novel (Japan’s equivalent to the Man Booker Prize) and the Honkaku Mystery Award. Pick up any other Higashino novel and somewhere in the jacket copy you’ll probably find “By the author of The Devotion of Suspect X.” This is Higashino’s most iconic work. ![]()
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