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Dec 13, 2021 · 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.
Nov 12, 2014 · In fact, there was a deep dependency and hatred between the two men, and the desperation of an aspiring author to get into print plays its devastating part in the story. The exploration of...
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...
Dec 13, 2018 · Higashino’s title (at least in Murray’s translation) makes such suspicions and suspiciousness sound relatively mild: “Newcomer” is hardly as threatening as “other”, “alien”, “stranger” or for...
Nov 19, 2022 · As Kaga embarks on the investigation, it takes him down dark alleys and into the unknown past. Japan’s notoriously reclusive but hugely popular detective writer Keigo Higashino, 64, is often billed as the country’s Stieg Larsson. In the league of bestselling American writers like James...
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Nov 24, 2014 · Higashino does not follow the normal conventions of the genre. In his cult sensation novel, The Devotion of Suspect X — one of the best crime novels I’ve ever read — the reader knows who committed the crime from the outset, but not how it was carried out.
