Malice
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4.6 • 8 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.
At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka.
As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers' relationship was very different that they claimed, that they were anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn't necessarily who, or how, but why. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn't able to uncover and prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out.
Malice is one of the bestselling—the most acclaimed—novel in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular creations of the bestselling novelist in Asia.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In this mind-bending mystery about a pair of writers, you never know if a clue is fact or fiction. The first novel in Japanese author Keigo Higashino’s long-running series finds investigator Detective Kyoichiro Kaga trying to crack the case of Kunihiko Hidaka, a bestselling novelist who was murdered. The author’s friend, Osamu Nonoguchi—a writer who’s much less renowned—was the last person to see Hidaka alive and soon comes under suspicion. As the story shifts between Kaga’s and Nonoguchi’s points of view, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell which version of events is true. Mystery master Higashino expertly conceals key pieces of the puzzle to keep us guessing, and narrator Jeff Woodman makes both versions of events sound equally compelling. Malice is a tricky cat-and-mouse mystery with surprising psychological depth.
