The Devotion of Suspect X

from fredbacon

First, I have a confession. I was reading this book on a plane flight across country. I was halfway through the book when I accidentally left it in the seat pocket on arrival. I was unable to recover the book, so I haven't finished it. Not knowing how it ends has been about to kill me, so I've pr...

from BeckyJG

Togashi, the shiftless ex-husband of single mom Yasuko, who for years has been harassing her and her daughter whenever he could track them down, goes one step too far at the beginning of The Devotion of Suspect X, a stately, elegantly constructed mystery by bestselling Japanese author Keigo Higas...

from lriley

Keigo Higashino's 'The devotion of Suspect X' is an interesting but not totally satisfying crime thriller. The story revolves around the death of one Hogashi who at the beginning of the book is stalking his ex-wife Yasuko and his step daughter Misato. He follows Yasuko home with the idea of extor...

from msf59

Sneaky, crafty and deceptive. No these are not new dwarf discoveries, but three words that came to my mind, as I read this fresh, engaging Japanese crime novel. The crime and it's participants are revealed early on, involving a single working mother, her teenage daughter, a kind neighbor and a na...

from Smiler69

When Yasuko's abusive ex-husband shows up uninvited and unwelcome at the apartment she shares with her teen-aged daughter one day, things quickly escalade and he ends up dead. Before she has had time to figure out what to do next, her next door neighbour Ishigami, a middle-aged mathematics teache...