The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

But this time, Yukawa secretly decides to take matters into his own hands to help his old friend Ishigami, who is involved in the mysterious case. Kusanagi often seeks the help of his friend, a genius physicist named Manabu Yukawa, in solving seemingly impossible cases.

Shunpei Kusanagi, a detective with the Tokyo Police, is given the task of decoding the mysterious events of that fateful day, but he is left stumped by the puzzling circumstances that he has been called upon to investigate. Cornered and helpless, she is then helped by the brilliant Ishigami, who devises a plan to cover up the murder. In a fit of rage and in self defense, she murders him. Shinji Togashi, her ex-husband, enters her life again and tries to destroy everything that she has built up. Yasuko Hanaoka works in a Bento shop, and her neighbor, Tetsuya Ishigami, a genius mathematician, falls in love with her. The story mainly revolves around the battle of wits between a mathematician and a physicist.

It narrates the story of Yasuko Hanaoka, a single mother who lives in Tokyo.

The Devotion Of Suspect X (known as Yogisha X No Kenshin in Japanese) is a mystery novel. It will linger long in the memory Independent on Sunday Intricate and beguiling.if you like riddles inside enigmas, it will please you no end Guardian Imaginative plotting.an erudite and quietly subversive police procedural that builds to a twisting finale that encapsulates the brutal fatalism of the great noir novels Irish Times The plot is taut and intriguing.this psychological driver sets it apart from more run-of-the-mill crime thrillers.Agatha Christie would be mightily impressed Financial Times Beautifully judged prose.we are hooked even before the author pulls off another coup.Set in the city of Tokyo, The Devotion Of Suspect X is a Japanese thriller novel, with the plot and the characters shrouded in an aura of mystery and crime. A strange one, it is true, but a love story nonetheless. You realise that The Devotion of Suspect X is not simply an extraordinary thriller but a love story. Meticulous.a thriller hung on obsessional love and impeccable logic which drags you along with a teasing how did he do it logic.there's a tremendous sense of the more down-at-heel Tokyo neighbourhoods.and the ending is a killer twist Metro The finale is both chilling and moving, and confronts emotions that crime fiction rarely covers.

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino