Or so it seems.Īt the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. 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.
"Fiendishly clever… Higashino offers one twist after another… Readers will marvel at the artful way the plot builds to the solution." ― Publishers Weekly (starred review)Īcclaimed 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. With each book, Higashino continues to elevate the modern mystery as an intense and inventive literary form." ― Library Journal (starred review) In fact, there was a deep dependency and hatred between the two men, and the desperation of an aspiring author to get into print plays its devastating part in the story."This smart and original mystery is a true page-turner… will baffle, surprise, and draw out suspicion until the final few pages. In a conversation with his sister, Nonoguchi argues in Hidaka’s favour and is asked whether he is so eager to defend him because he himself is a writer, taking us to the core of the relationship between the two men, though apparently there was little connection. The randomness of malice is more terrifying than the identifiable causes of envy or jealousy.
The detective’s examination of these youthful relationships forms an absorbing study of school bullying, concluding that there may be no real reason for a group to choose a victim, no particular grounds – it is just the “Malice” of the title at work, sometimes persisting into adult life. Mysteries are gathering quickly, and Hidaka’s novels include one pillorying an old school friend as a schoolboy guilty of rape, a disastrous depiction of a highly sensitive young man who became an artist.
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