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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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Keigo Higashino (Japanese: 東野 圭吾, Hepburn: Higashino Keigo, born February 4, 1958) is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels. He served as the 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from 2009 to 2013.
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NameKeigo HigashinoJapanese:東野圭吾 （ひがしの けいご)Birthdate:February 4, 1958Birthplace: Ikuno Ward, Osaka City, Osaka, JapanBorn in Osaka in 1958. He graduated from Osaka Prefectural University, where he majored in electrical engineering. He wrote novels while working as an engineer, and made his debut as a novelist in 1985 with After School, which won him the Edogawa Rampo Award. As a full-time writer, he won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award for Himitsu in 1...
Keigo Higashino is a master at storytelling, and if you love murder mysteries novels, then his books are worth reading. Book Series In Order » Authors » Keigo Higashino. Complete order of Keigo Higashino books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
- 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.
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.
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Journey Under the Midnight Sun (白夜行, Byakuyakō) (also published in English as Under the Midnight Sun) [1] is a mystery novel written by Keigo Higashino, first serialized in the monthly novel magazine Subaru from Shueisha from January 1997 to January 1999. The entire volume was published in August 1999 and became a bestseller.
