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Dec 13, 2021 · What do Higashino’s books tell us about Tokyo and the people of Japan? I spoke with two of Higashino’s English-language translators, Giles Murray and Alexander O. Smith, about how the world in Higashino’s crime novels reflect the real Tokyo—how it feels, how it operates, and how it’s changing.
I'd recommend "Devotion of Suspect X" as a great starting point as it was his first English translated novel to get some recognition and is one of the very best in the genre.
Sep 1, 1996 · From the bestselling Japanese author of The Devotion of Suspect X comes Malice, the most acclaimed novel in Higashino's outstanding Detective Kaga series. Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver.
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The Devotion of Suspect X (容疑者Xの献身, Yōgisha Ekkusu no Kenshin) is a 2005 novel by Keigo Higashino, the first in his Detective Galileo series and is his most acclaimed work thus far. The novel won him numerous awards, including the 134th Naoki Prize , which is a highly regarded award in Japan.
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Oct 9, 2015 · Journey Under the Midnight Sun is a dark, convoluted tale, marked by Higashino’s characteristic sleight of hand. The novel opens in Osaka in the early 1970s – Homicide Detective Junzo Sasagaki is taking a walk on his day off when he sees a group of police cars converge on an abandoned building.
Dec 13, 2018 · This finely judged balancing act made 2005’s The Devotion of Suspect X a bona fide masterpiece and to my mind the single finest crime novel of the 21st century, but it is also present in Newcomer.
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Jan 28, 2019 · As with celebrated literary sleuths like Christie's Hercule Poirot and Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Higashino's Kaga knows that the key to solving the most heinous crimes lies in understanding...
