When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. So I suggest you write down the name of the characters as they come along, to be sure you remember who is who. I know some readers have trouble with foreign names. This is not as high literature as 1Q84, but it is a very different genre. What are you doing with these feelings? Can you master them, or will you follow them, wherever they might lead you? It was also a good invitation to think about what happens in you when you get very engrossed in someone. The book is well written, with a progressive sense of suspense, and nice daily lives descriptions in Japan. That comes handy to cover a murder, doesn’t it? Doesn’t it sound irresistible if I add that a former friend of his, another super smart guy, Yukawa, a physicist this time, tries with his own extra logic mind to figure out how Ishigami is implied, and how he covered it? Will Yukawa or a team of detectives manage to solve the case? Well, of course I am not going to tell you.įunny enough, I had figured out a possible solution, but that was far away from the one chosen by the author, so I guess I could rewrite the book with my own end to it! Could really anyone figure out that one? I sincerely doubt it. But through the intervention of a neighbor, who happens to be like a secret lover, things get much more complex and very interesting.Īs a matter of fact, this guy, Ishigami, is a smart mathematician, with an extremely logic mind. It all begins as a somewhat regular murder case. It is a very smart book, and I do enjoy smart books!

Mysteries and thrillers are not my top category per se, but I REALLY enjoyed very much The Devotion of Suspect X. There is something very attractive in Japanese literature, I am not sure yet what. I love it when time comes to delve back into my J apanese Literature challenge.

THIS BOOK COUNTS FOR THE FOLLOWING READING CHALLENGES (originally published in Japanese in 2005)

The devotion of suspect x review