One thing leads to another and the ex-husband ends up dead. Alexander.Ī divorced single mother and former night club hostess, Yasuko Hanaoka, thought she finally escaped her ex-husband when he shows up on her door step.
How Keigo Higashino achieved that might be the true mystery of the book.Ī word of praise to the fine and fluent translation by Alexander O. I found those interesting even though some were hard for me to grasp but somehow they helped the story move along. Scattered throughout the books are complex philosophical questions and mathematical proofs. Understanding Ishigami is the key to understanding this book. We learn about his strange devotion to Yasuko and keep wondering what made him do what he did – all the way to end. As we get to know Ishigami, we learn why he wastes his time teaching high-school students who don’t care and that he must pass. The interaction between the characters is very interesting and the characters themselves are appealing as well.
Actually one could say that this book, certainly a thinking person’s novel, is more of a psychological drama, a cat and mouse game, than a mystery. The mystery is the way the investigation unfolds, layer by layer while the reader is privy to how the murder was done is a unique way to tell a story it is also dangerous because the pitfalls to ruin the story are many. “The Devotion of Suspect X” by Keigo Higashino is a very clever mystery novel.
My rating for The Devotion of Suspect X – 4īuy The Devotion of Suspect X from * The publisher has made available three (3) copies of “The Devotion of Suspect X” to be given out- enter at the end of the post. This charming novel focuses on the mind games played between the suspect and a police consultant – both brilliant mathematicians. “The Devotion of Suspect X” by award winning Japanese author Keigo Higashino ( Wikipedia)is a fictional mystery book but not in the usually “who-dun-it” style.
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