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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.
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.
- Malice (2014) | 288 pages. The night before he plans to travel to Vancouver from Japan, renowned author Kunihiko Hidaka is found dead in his home. His body, brutally murdered, was found inside his office – a locked room inside a locked house.
- The Devotion of Suspect X (2011) | 298 pages. Perhaps Higashino’s most popular work, The Devotion of Suspect X, is the third installment in the Detective Galileo series and is getting a Bollywood adaptation in September 2023.
- A Death in Tokyo (2022) | 368 pages. In Nihonbashi, Tokyo, a strange statue of a kirin – a mythical beast – looks over the district from the Nihonbashi bridge.
- Salvation of a Saint (2012) | 330 pages. The fifth installment in the Detective Galileo series, this book centers around the death of Yoshitaka, a man about to leave his wife, who died from drinking arsenic-laced coffee.
Aug 1, 1999 · Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (Translator) 4.33. 16,561 ratings2,347 reviews. When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case.
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Nov 8, 2016 · Under the Midnight Sun is a complex, psychological novel about crime and its after-effects by one the most read and most accomplished contemporary mystery author. A twisting, compelling work that...
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- Under the Midnight Sun: A Novel
- Macmillan, 2016
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Aug 29, 2005 · Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (Translator), Elye J. Alexander (Translator) Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered.
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Oct 30, 2018 · Here are six favourite recommendations, all available in English translation, and which give a solid foundation in Japanese crime which newer authors are building on all the time… The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
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