While the case is surprisingly simplistic, it is also masterfully done, confounding the reader and delving deep into the psychology of the murderer. I went into this book expecting a hard-boiled mystery, and yet what I got was a psychological mystery. Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga sets out to solve the baffling case, playing cat and mouse with an always present and cunning killer. He is found in a locked room of his home by his wife and best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Synopsis: Famous novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is brutally murdered days before he is relocating from Japan to Vancouver. It is the first book in the Detective Kaga series and the only one which has been translated into English yet. Unfortunately, this is anything but a light mystery. I stumbled upon this book in the library and read it on a lark, mostly because I was hoping for a light murder mystery. From what I could gather, Higashino is the James Patterson of Japan. According to the back of this book, Keigo Higashino “is the bestselling and most widely read novelist in Japan.” Add to that that I have never heard of him before.
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