I had never read any of Higashino's work before, but was really looking forward to The Devotion of Suspect X.After Yasuko unintentionally kills her ex-husband during a violent struggle in her apartment, she is surprised when her next door neighbor, the brilliant mathematician Ishigami, offers to do all that he can to help cover up the crime.
Smith-one of my favorite translators-worked on the novel's translation with Elye J. I was also very excited to learn that Alexander O. I was happy to receive an advance copy of The Devotion of Suspect X through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. The novel is scheduled for release in English in February 2011 by the Minotaur imprint of St. The Devotion of Suspect X is arguably his most notable book-originally published in Japan in 2005, it won him the Naoki Sanjugo Prize and was made into a film in 2008. (Vertical published his novel Himitsu, "Secret," under the title Naoko in 2004.) This is really too bad since he is both a popular and award-winning author in Japan. The Devotion of Suspect X is only the second of Keigo Higashino's works to be translated into English. What ensues is a high level battle of wits, as Ishigami tries to protect Yasuko by outmaneuvering and outthinking Yukawa, who faces his most clever and determined opponent yet. After meeting up with him again, Yukawa is convinced that Ishigami had something to do with the murder. Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist and college friend who frequently consults with the police.
Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko's manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there's something wrong. When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi.
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