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Author:   Keigo Higashino
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Little, Brown
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781408703250

ISBN 10:   1408703254
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   07 July 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available  
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Meticulous...a thriller hung on obsessional love and impeccable logic which drags you along with a teasing how did he do it logic...there's a tremendous sense of the more down-at-heel Tokyo neighbourhoods...and the ending is a killer twist Metro The finale is both chilling and moving, and confronts emotions that crime fiction rarely covers. You realise that The Devotion of Suspect X is not simply an extraordinary thriller but a love story. A strange one, it is true, but a love story nonetheless. It will linger long in the memory Independent on Sunday Intricate and beguiling...if you like riddles inside enigmas, it will please you no end Guardian Imaginative plotting...an erudite and quietly subversive police procedural that builds to a twisting finale that encapsulates the brutal fatalism of the great noir novels Irish Times The plot is taut and intriguing...this psychological driver sets it apart from more run-of-the-mill crime thrillers...Agatha Christie would be mightily impressed Financial Times Beautifully judged prose...we are hooked even before the author pulls off another coup... Anyone who regularly writes about the crime genre is repeatedly asked: what's the next trend? If there were more genre authors in Japan as accomplished as this, the answer would be simple: Japanese crime fiction Independent

Derek writes: I've just about finished reading The Devotion of Suspect X and I'm ready to give it my tick of approval. It's just been published here after its release in Japan in 2005 where it became an overnight sensation and a best-seller. Partly, I suspect, because it's such a great page-turner. It's a mystery, but it's not your typical who-dunnit, because we know from the opening pages that Yasuko diddit - and with what. Yasuko lives a quiet life with her teenage daughter, working her days in a Tokyo bento shop, and is pretty much oblivious to the unspoken infatuation from her next-door neighbor Ishigami. One night Yasuko's ex-husband pays her an unwanted visit and in the heat of the moment Yasuko's comfortable world changes forever. Then Ishigami, a reclusive maths teacher, who up to this point has only admired Yasuko from across the counter of the bento shop, steps in to help her avoid arrest, using his considerable puzzle-solving skills to throw the police off the scent. The detective assigned to the case, Kusanagi, is baffled by the puzzling, mysterious nature of the crime, and enlists his chess buddy, physicist Yukawa to help him solve the mystery. Yukawa is a former classmate of ishigami and the action of the book really centres on the mental tussle between Ishigami, the socially awkward maths genius, and Yukawa, the crime-unravelling physicist. The emotion of the book is reflected in the title, and that's the devotion of Ishigami to his neighbor Yasuko and although the book is crime thriller, it's also a story of obsessive love.

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Keigo Higashino was born in Osaka. He started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize for writing at age 27, and subsequently quit his job to start a career as a writer in Tokyo.

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