A single mother with an abusive ex-husband gets help from a reclusive neighbor, but all is not what it seems in Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X.
This was a good mystery with an interesting Japanese setting that adds a lot of flavor to the storytelling. The dynamics of the characters was also compelling, with a battle of wits forming between the gruff detective; his old friend who is a brilliant professor and amateur sleuth; and the professor's old classmate, an equally brilliant mathematician whose motives towards the single mother are gradually revealed.
A change of pace mystery, from an author I would like to read more from. I believe the policeman and his friend return in other novels, so I hope to be able to find them translated into English.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana.
This was a good mystery with an interesting Japanese setting that adds a lot of flavor to the storytelling. The dynamics of the characters was also compelling, with a battle of wits forming between the gruff detective; his old friend who is a brilliant professor and amateur sleuth; and the professor's old classmate, an equally brilliant mathematician whose motives towards the single mother are gradually revealed.
A change of pace mystery, from an author I would like to read more from. I believe the policeman and his friend return in other novels, so I hope to be able to find them translated into English.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana.
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