MALICE

A novelist is found dead inside a locked room, a suspect is arrested early, and the real question becomes motive. Keigo Higashino structures the investigation through case notes and competing accounts, with Detective Kaga reading the written record as closely as he reads the people involved. Each explanation that seems to settle the matter opens another, and the novel's interest lies in why someone would construct a story rather than simply tell one. Worth knowing first: • A Detective Kyoichiro Kaga investigation translated into English • Narrated through documents, notebooks and shifting testimony • Motive rather than identity treated as the central puzzle • Compact chapters that hold the structure clearly in view Recommended for readers of Japanese crime writing, locked-room puzzles and psychological detective fiction, this translated edition is stocked by Boipoka.