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Title: The Devotion of Suspect XAuthor: Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (translator)
Published: 2005
Language: English (translated from Japanese)
Pages: 440
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
Set in Tokyo, we follow a woman whose ex-husband has been murdered and we follow the story of the mystery through the woman, her neighbor and the detective investigating the case.
Review:
This was a pretty interesting story and I'm glad I read it!
This isn't your typical murder mystery in a lot of ways; you're told quite early on a lot about the murder and then throughout the story, different facets of the characters involved and facts of the crime come to light. The further into the story you get, the more you start questioning things and wondering what's really going on, until finally, we get to read about it in a surprising and twisty ending.
I think most of the characters are interesting, but I did notice that the woman in the story felt a little flat on occasion and I think she could've been better developed. The language is not particularly intricate; I think the whole book has a delightful tension to it throughout, but I sometimes wished we had more descriptions of both setting and characters. Like I mentioned, the twist at the end was a surprise and I didn't see it coming at all. I do perhaps think we spent a little too much time getting there; the story did feel a little slow in parts.
Overall though, I very much enjoyed this and it was fun to read a little bit of a different mystery thriller! I hope more of this author's work has been translated into English because I'd love to read it!
You can read more about it on Goodreads
