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Malice (Detective Kaga, #1)

Keigo Higashino,

Alexander O. Smith (Translator)

Finish date: January 22, 2017

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Oct 30, 2021 Maryam rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, audiobook, popsugar2021

Keigo Higashino is a known and very popular mystery writer in Japan. When I get to this task this year Popsugar reading challenge: Read a best seller from 1990, I decided to look outside of US or UK world and this book came up, published originally in 1996 in Japan but translated to English in the 2000s.

It was a very well-written mystery story with having Japanese culture in the core, so like much Japanese literature at least for it looked slow but at the end I really enjoyed it.

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Nov 07, 2022 Astrid Lim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: series, thriller-mystery, asia, twist, japanese, terjemahan

3,5 stars!!

This is a good example of a clever thriller, with enough twists and turns and intriguing characters, plus a great reliable narrator. Perhaps I was just too mad to give it more stars because I felt cheated LOL

As most Japanese thrillers (including Keigo Higashino's books), the mystery is a bit too much, too complicated. But instead of playing with whodunit, here Higashino played with "why did he do it"?

It's very innovative and out of the box, and definitely I'll read the rest of the ser ...more

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Jul 29, 2021 Jaime rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, read-2021, popsugar-2021, poc-author, asian-literature, japan, locked-room

This twisty mystery from Japanese author Higashino is the 4th in a series but can be read as a standalone. Bestselling author Kunihiko Hidaka has been found dead in his office. The office is locked, the house is locked, and most of their belongings have already been moved to their new home in Canada. So who could have done it, and why? Three people were the last two see him: his wife Rie; a woman who is suing Hidaka over the contents of one of his books; and his best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi.

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Oct 16, 2023 Shannon rated it it was amazing

I’ve read a lot of mysteries, from cozy to thriller and everything in between. Malice is a great mystery. It’s told in an unusual way and the twists and turns are great. I highly recommend this one!

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Dec 09, 2024 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery-jpn, detective-mystery, mystery, unreliable-narrator, audio, translation

This is such an odd murder mystery! Within the first 20% of the book, a man is murdered, the police investigate, find a suspect, and the suspect confesses. What, then is the rest of the book??? The motive. What really happened. No, really THIS time it's the truth. No, wait, THIS time is the truth. Or is it? Better keep reading. ...more

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Mar 25, 2023 alana rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: find-it-somewhere

Interesting way to unfold the story. Other than the names, the setting doesn't feel particularly Japanese in this one. It seems like something that would easily get made into a movie set in another country. ...more

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