"What's in an alibi? In The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino weaves a web of intellectual gamesmanship in which the truth is a weapon that leads both police and readers astray. This character-driven mystery by the prolific Higashino has much to recommend it, including a droll Columbo-like sleuth and a great surprise ending." - Kirkus Reviews The Devotion of Suspect X will make readers redefine devotion and trust in an otherwise complete stranger." - Library Journal It will make readers redefine devotion and trust in an otherwise complete stranger." - Library Journal this literary psychological thriller is a subtle and shifting murder mystery. In this brutally laconic translation, cold logic battles warm hearts throughout this elegant proof of the wages of sin, in which everyone suffers and no one can ever win!" - Publishers Weekly What ensues is a high level battle of wits, as Ishigami tries to protect Yasuko by outmaneuvering and outthinking Yukawa, who faces his most clever and determined opponent yet.
After meeting up with him again, Yukawa is convinced that Ishigami had something to do with the murder. Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist and college friend who frequently consults with the police.
Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko's manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there's something wrong. When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. 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. Winner of the prestigious Naoki Prize for Best Novel the equivalent of the National Book Award.
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