Author - Keigo Higashino
Genre - Detective, Mystery, Crime, Japan.
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4
Read - June 2015
So then, to our second encounter with our (second) favorite pompous git of all time, Manabu Yukawa aka Detective Galileo. And to that excellent, bowfully-yours, 'let's have a round of badminton','you have gained weight I see' banter between him and Inspector Kusanagi. Remember 'The Devotion of Suspect X'? Remember the giddy excitement of reading this, 'Gone Girl' and 'A Place of Execution' one after the other? Our Manabu-man is back!
And a fine return it is! Not quite the equal of 'Suspect X' in ingenuity, this book nonetheless spins a dexterous web of its own, And what characters - a two-timing husband who treats his WAGs as baby-making factories, a wife who creates artwork worth millions, a pregnant protege, an enfant-terrible of a junior detective, and even a lovesick Kusanagi - a cast worthy of attention for any detective fiction aficionado.
As usual, I would not reveal much in this review, but I will tell you this. There are only a handful of detective writers in history who compare with Higashino in the how-dunit. And this book is that master plotter in his elements. Read it.
Genre - Detective, Mystery, Crime, Japan.
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4
Read - June 2015
So then, to our second encounter with our (second) favorite pompous git of all time, Manabu Yukawa aka Detective Galileo. And to that excellent, bowfully-yours, 'let's have a round of badminton','you have gained weight I see' banter between him and Inspector Kusanagi. Remember 'The Devotion of Suspect X'? Remember the giddy excitement of reading this, 'Gone Girl' and 'A Place of Execution' one after the other? Our Manabu-man is back!
And a fine return it is! Not quite the equal of 'Suspect X' in ingenuity, this book nonetheless spins a dexterous web of its own, And what characters - a two-timing husband who treats his WAGs as baby-making factories, a wife who creates artwork worth millions, a pregnant protege, an enfant-terrible of a junior detective, and even a lovesick Kusanagi - a cast worthy of attention for any detective fiction aficionado.
As usual, I would not reveal much in this review, but I will tell you this. There are only a handful of detective writers in history who compare with Higashino in the how-dunit. And this book is that master plotter in his elements. Read it.
