The Devotion of Suspect X
Ada’s Score
Keigo Higashino's 2005 Japanese crime novel, translated into English in 2011, inverts the conventional mystery form: we know from the first pages who committed the crime and how. The suspense lies entirely in whether the meticulous genius who constructed the alibi — a reclusive mathematics teacher obsessed with his neighbour — can outwit the detective assigned to the case. Higashino has written something rarer than a clever puzzle: a genuinely moving meditation on devotion, sacrifice, and the mathematics of love. Its final revelation is one of the most affecting in modern crime fiction.
Ada Brief
AI reading intelligence"Higashino flips the whodunit inside out and creates something heartbreaking. The ending floored me completely."
Video Brief
Coming soon
When Love Becomes the Perfect Crime
Here's the thing that makes this mystery so utterly compelling — you know who committed the murder from the very first chapter. And yet I promise you, Higashino will still manage to break your heart and blow your mind by the final page. This is a book about the terrifying, beautiful lengths one person will go to for love, and it left me staring at the wall for a good ten minutes after I finished it.
Book Details
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Minotaur
- Published
- January 1, 2011
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
Get This Book
Affiliate linksISBN: 9781427211958
Disclosure: ReadAda earns a commission on purchases made through these links, at no extra cost to you.
