![]() ![]() Sooner than expected, Nonoguchi confesses to having committed the crime. Detective Kaga with his razor sharp thinking tries to fit in the various pieces of the jigsaw puzzle reconstructing the whole incident. ![]() ![]() What looks like a classic locked-room mystery soon becomes a cat and mouse game. When the police take on the investigation, both Nonoguchi and Rie- Hidaka’s wife who was also present when the corpse was found, seem to have the perfect alibis. Hidaka has been hit with a paperweight on the head, before being strangulated with a telephone wire. One evening Nonoguchi discovers his friend Hidaka dead in the home-office of Hidaka, face down on the floor. ![]() But trust me this is the only confusing part). Keigo Higoshino’s Malice begins with a journal entry by Osamu Nonoguchi- an author who dabbles with writing children’s books (yes, you would have to get used to a whole lot of Japanese names in this book. In such a case, would a murder mystery still be interesting, knowing at the very onset who the killer actually is? Keigo Higashino’s Malice proves that it still can be, by playing around with the plot so cleverly that you sure would not put it down till that last page. Well, let me confess- it wasn’t my own conclusion arising out of my perception. I knew who the killer was from the very first page. ![]()
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