Detective Galileo Series: The Devotion of Suspect X : A Detective Galileo Novel (Series #1) (Paperback)

from citygirl

Imagine that Hitchcock was a Japanese math nerd, and you've got Devotion. Yasuko, a single mother of a teenage girl, has an abusive ex she's been hiding from for years. He turns up and things get out of hand: Zed's dead.* That's no spoiler; all that happens in the first chapter or two. The afterm...

from mattshark

After reading The Devotion of Suspect X, it is easy to understand why Keigo Higashino is so popular in Japan. I hope that we can expect more of his work translated into English soon. His writing is thoughtful, his characters interesting, and he offers an interesting glimpse into everyday life in ...

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 Ken-Me-Old-Mate

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Hagashino This detective novel will make you gasp as the final truth unfurls.No spoilers here. Having read a few novels translated from Japanese I guess the cultural differences just seemed normal to me. If you aren't used to Japanese ways and this was the ...

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...