The Devotion of Suspect X
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410436832 (1410436837)
Publish date: May 4th 2011
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 453
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Japan,
Suspense,
Japanese Literature
Series: Detective Galileo (#3)
Woah!!!! What a mind wrangling book!!! This was a gripping, thrilling, confusing, awesome story. What seemed idiotic in the beginning seemed logical in the end. What seemed unbelievable seemed the only believable thing in the end. I probably have to read this again to soak in the nuances but
In the beginning of the story, a man who have been harassing his ex-wife was first injured by his own daughter. He fought back and the girl's mother kill this man in self-defense. The story go really weird real fast. The next door neighbor knew that they are in trouble and offered to dispose t...
"The Devotion Of Suspect X" is an original, surprising, thought-provoking crime novel set in Japan. It's one of the most satisfying reads I've had this year so far because it's fresh, it works on so many levels and it's entertaining. "The Devotion Of Suspect X" sets out to do something different t...
“Simple deduction.” Good, if not knock-your-socks-off brilliant, summer pot-boiler with a setup that wouldn’t have been out of place in Jimmy McGovern’s “Cracker” (c.f. the “Best Boys” episode). It certainly rockets past, there is only the merest sprinkling of Japanese exoticism (basically just name...
This is not the type of crime/detective novel where the biggest mystery is who committed the crime, as it is already revealed to the reader since the beginning. Instead the reader is brought to wonder how Suspect X managed to conceal the crime and befuddle the police.I'd actually already watched the...
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