Author - Keigo Higashino
Genre - Detective, Mystery, Kyoichiro Kaga, Japan, Crime
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4
Read - June 2015
Kyoichiro Kaga is a police detective. Kyoichiro Kaga is a very smart man, but that smartness never threatens the realms of genius or even spectacular brilliance. Kaga practices kendo. Kaga is not quirky, arrogant or pompous. Kaga is, as Frederick Forsyth will put it, a 'jagdhund', the African Sniffer dog - ungainly, neither super fast or super strong, but once he catches the trail of his target, he will not let go. In this first story of his that I read, the protagonists steal the show with their ingenuity and their ruthlessness, and lead Kaga down the wrong path more than once - but Kaga doesn't let go. Doggedness and perseverance, great traits though they are for a detective, do not translate well to literature. With Kaga though, I am impressed. Kyoichiro Kaga is no Manabu Yukawa, and that is just fine by me.
Genre - Detective, Mystery, Kyoichiro Kaga, Japan, Crime
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4
Read - June 2015
Kyoichiro Kaga is a police detective. Kyoichiro Kaga is a very smart man, but that smartness never threatens the realms of genius or even spectacular brilliance. Kaga practices kendo. Kaga is not quirky, arrogant or pompous. Kaga is, as Frederick Forsyth will put it, a 'jagdhund', the African Sniffer dog - ungainly, neither super fast or super strong, but once he catches the trail of his target, he will not let go. In this first story of his that I read, the protagonists steal the show with their ingenuity and their ruthlessness, and lead Kaga down the wrong path more than once - but Kaga doesn't let go. Doggedness and perseverance, great traits though they are for a detective, do not translate well to literature. With Kaga though, I am impressed. Kyoichiro Kaga is no Manabu Yukawa, and that is just fine by me.
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