![]() ![]() So begins a battle of wits between Ishigami and the detectives who quite quickly look at Yasuko as the obvious suspect. Ishigami hears what happens next door offers to help make it all go away. He has no personal life to speak of aside from working on various high level math proofs. ![]() He’s her neighbor and a high school math teacher. When the seemingly inevitable happens and he returns threatening violence, the tables are turned and Yasuko is left with a corpse in her living room. Yasuko is a single mother dealing with an abusive ex-husband. The book unfolds Columbo-like as we meet the folks committing the crime first, before any detectives. It has managed to pull off that magician-like trick of subverting your expectations in a wholly satisfying way. The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino is one of those books. So it takes something special to break through the standard expectations. They follow certain threads and put the pieces together in order to bring the killer (sometimes charming and likable, sometimes not) to justice. The detective stumbles on or encounters a mystery. I have read a lot of mysteries and most tend to follow a certain well worn path. ![]()
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