![]() ![]() The novel unfolds in alternating focus, between the police detective who feels something isn’t quite right with Yasuko’s perfect alibi, and Yasuko, following Ishigami’s directions and trying not to draw any more suspicion on her self and her daughter. The only possibly flaw is that “Detective Galileo,” a friend and sometime consultant for the police department, is Ishigami’s old classmate and also an investigative genius. Ishigami, it turns out, is a criminal mastermind, devoted to keeping Yasuko and her daughter safe. ![]() Ishigami, a quiet math teacher and their next door neighbor, hears the commotion, and calmly offers to hide the body. Yasuko, a former nightclub hostess and now a lunch counter worker, accidentally kills her terrible ex-husband when defending herself and her daughter. Osusume Books promises to send carefully recommended Japanese novels, and without revealing too much, because this is a fascinating mystery with loads of twists, I can say it was a perfect choice for me. I got Keigo Higashino’s The Devotion of Suspect X through Osusume Books. ![]()
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