![]() Noguchi was a close friend of the victim, the last to see him alive, and the one who discovered his body. After the death of successful author Kunihio Hidaka, Kaga finds himself questioning an old colleague from his teaching days, Osamu Noguchi. It’s a rather cozy mystery – the murder occurs by paperweight and telephone cord – and the worst shortcoming of the investigator, the tenacious teacher-turned-police detective Kyoichiro Kaga, is that he occasionally doubts himself. Malice is perhaps the least Western-feeling of all his novels. You may have read The Devotion of Suspect X and The Salvation of the Saint, part of the Detective Galileo series. Higashino is a publishing phenomenon in Japan – writing mainly mysteries, penning several series, each one focusing on a different detective. In crime fiction in particular, the second half of 2014 has seen three great novels – Confessions by Kanae Minato and Last Winter We Parted by Fuminori Nakamura, both of which will be reviewed here in the coming weeks, and my pick of the bunch, Malice by Keigo Higashino. ![]() ![]() Across all genres, Japanese literature in English has flown off the shelves. Written by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O Smith - This year has been a good one for lovers of Japanese literature in translation. ![]()
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