![]() ![]() Malice is published by Hachette Australia, $29.99. Instead, this is a classic whodunit – and why did they do it – where each turn of a page feels like you are slowly unwrapping an intriguing puzzle to find the source of the malice of the book’s title.Ī refreshingly original yet nonetheless absorbing thriller by the author of previous best-seller The Devotion of Suspect X. The author doesn’t distract his readers with subplots, multiple location changes, graphic imagery, side stories about his investigator’s private life or threats of further death and destruction. ![]() But how to know whose story and recollection is true? That is the question. Kunihiko Hidaka and Osamu Nonoguchi were childhood friends. 7, 2014 The creator of Detective Galileo (Salvation of a Saint, 2012, etc.) returns with another fiendishly clever Chinesemake that Japanesebox of a whydunit. Alternating chapters are voiced by different characters: first there’s Nonoguchi’s own account of the murder, then the detective’s notes and, towards the end, transcripts of interviews with old acquaintances. 1 MALICE by Keigo Higashino RELEASE DATE: Oct. ![]() The clever narrative techniques adopted by Higashino keep the reader guessing as a cat and mouse game ensues and we are drawn deeper into a maze of complex relationships that date back to Hidaka and Nonoguchi’s school days. Young Corban watches enviously as boys become warriors under King Brenin’s rule, learning the art of war. ![]()
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