La devocion del sospechoso X / The Devotion of Suspect X

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 quondame

This is a disgusting display of male egoizing by author and characters at the expense of the woman arbitrarily at the center of the story. If I could throw darts at a crucified "Galileo" I would. What a complete horror that man is, willing to sacrifice friendship and lives to his own sense of rig...

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...

from LizzieD

I am a victim of the hype for this one. Believing half of it, I was expecting a genre-breaking novel just a level or so below Murakami. I'm not sure that Keigo Higashino is even in the same building! Instead, I find this to be a police procedural written by somebody who doesn't have any particula...