This is my second Higashino thriller and, in the meantime, I’m also enjoying dipping into films based on his novels.
This activity leaves me often in a bad mood as, though I’m a huge fan of Japanese dramas and films, the films based on both the Higashino novels that I’ve read, all fail to live up to the grandeur of his writing and his plots. Fail utterly and shamefully short.
And The Devotion of Suspect X is a book that is written to film! At least Keigo Higashino’s deceptively simple style is highly visualisable.
Some have found the pace a bit slow to start out but - again, perhaps, because this is my second book by this author, I was respectfully alert. My habit of watching Japanese dramas and films also made the pages come alive.
This book is almost like an elegant frame for some very worthwhile gems of mathematical puzzles. I’m quite dumb and will confess that I will perhaps never ever understand the puzzles but at least I now know of a few such thanks to this author.
The book is a delicious puzzle - everything is under your nose but only the last pages will reveal all.