Keigo Higashino is one of the masters of mystery/crime novels, with his works being quite popular while frequently receiving movie and TV adaptations. As is common in Japanese books of the category, the whodunnit element in the majority of his works is actually a secondary one, with the why and how being the main ones. “Malice”, the fourth book of his featuring police detective Kaga as the protagonist, follows the same path, as a confession about the murder is offered early one, providing, though, not an ending, but the beginning of a series of plot twists.

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Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he’s planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife, Rie, and his best friend,...