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Praise for Keigo Higashino

‘Higashino offers one twist after another, all of which touch on the theme suggested by the book’s title. Readers will marvel at the artful way the plot builds to the solution of Hidaka’s murder’ Publishers Weekly on Malice

‘Keigo Higashino again proves his mastery of the diabolical puzzle mystery with Malice, a story with more turns, twists, switchbacks and sudden stops than a Tokyo highway during Golden Week’ New York Times on Malice

‘Keigo Higashino combines Dostoyevskian psychological realism with classic detective-story puzzles reminiscent of Agatha Christie and E. C. Bentley’ Wall Street Journal

‘Higashino continues to elevate the modern mystery as an intense and inventive literary form’ Library Journal

‘Intricate… At the outset, [Higashino’s] approach seems unsettling, but the Edgar nominee knows his business’ Booklist

‘Each time you’re convinced Higashino’s wrung every possible twist out of his golden-age setup, he comes up with a new one’ Kirkus Reviews

‘Intricate and beguiling… if you like riddles inside enigmas, it will please you no end’ Guardian on The Devotion of Suspect X

‘The plot is satisfyingly twisty and gathers pace as the revelations come thicker, faster, and more and more unexpected’ Sydney Morning Herald on Malice

‘Each time Higashino makes a revelation, he quickly pulls the carpet from under one’s feet, fuelling the reader to finish the book as quickly as possible’ Singapore Straits Times

About author

Keigo Higashino was born in Osaka. He started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize for writing at the age of twenty-seven, and subsequently quit his job to start a career as a writer in Tokyo.

Also by Keigo Higashino

The Devotion of Suspect X

Salvation of a Saint

Malice

Copyright

Published by Little, Brown

978-1-4055-1680-8

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Copyright © Keigo Higashino 2002

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

Translation copyright © Alexander O.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.

The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.

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ONE

Sasagaki left the station and headed west along the tracks. Despite being October it was still dreadfully muggy, yet the ground was dry so when a truck sped by it sent up clouds of dust. He frowned and rubbed his eyes, his feet falling heavy on the pavement. By all rights, he should have been spending the day at home enjoying some leisurely reading – in fact he’d been holding off on a new thriller just for the occasion.