HIGASHINO KEIGO

(P/B) A Death in Tokyo
The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino. On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man, who he presumes to be drunk - only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest. He is dead. Meanwhile, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the p...
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(P/B) SALVATION OF A SAINT
When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in his empty home his beautiful wife, Ayane, immediately falls under suspicion. All clues point to Ayane being the logical suspect, but how could she have committed the crime when she was hundreds of miles away? As Tokyo police detective Kusanagi tries to unpick a seemingly unrelated sequence of events he finds himself falling for Ayane. When his judgement becomes dangerously clouded his assistant must call on an old friend for help; it will take a genius to unravel the most spectacular web of dec...
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(P/B) THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X
Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime... One of the biggest-selling Japanese thrillers ...
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Η ΛΥΤΡΩΣΗ ΜΙΑΣ ΑΓΙΑΣ
Μετά την ανακάλυψη του πτώματος ενός επιχειρηματία στο άδειο σπίτι του, ο πλέον πιθανός ύποπτος για τη δηλητηρίασή του είναι η όμορφη σύζυγός του. Πως είναι δυνατόν όμως να έχει διαπράξει τον φόνο όταν την ίδια στιγμή βρισκόταν -αποδεδειγμένα- πολλές εκατοντάδες χιλιόμετρα μακριά; Τα πράγματα όμως περιπλέκονται ακόμα περισσότερο... Η βασική ύποπτος φαίνεται να ασκεί ακαταμάχητη έλξη στον αστυνομικό που ερευνά την υπόθεση, τον επιθεωρητή Κουσανάγκι της Αστυνομίας του Τόκιο, ενώ εκείνος αγωνίζεται να βάλει σε τάξη μια φαινομενικά άσχετη ακολ...
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Η ΑΦΟΣΙΩΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΥΠΟΠΤΟΥ Χ
Το βραβευμένο έργο του δημοφιλέστερου σήμερα συγγραφέα της Ιαπωνίας, το οποίο έλαβε διθυραμβικές κριτικές, έκανε περισσότερες από δύο εκατομμύρια πωλήσεις και αποτέλεσε τη βάση για μια άκρως επιτυχημένη κινηματογραφική ταινία. Η Γιασούκο πίστευε ότι είχε γλιτώσει πλέον από τον πρώην σύζυγό της που την κακομεταχειριζόταν. Όμως η ξαφνική του επανεμφάνιση και οι απειλές του κατά της ίδιας και της έφηβης κόρης της οδηγούν γρήγορα στα άκρα, με αποτέλεσμα ο πρώην σύζυγος να καταλήξει νεκρός στο διαμέρισμά της. Χωρίς τον παραμικρό δισταγμό, ο αιν...
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(P/B) A MIDSUMMER'S EQUATION
When a man's body is discovered at the base of some cliffs in the small resort town of Hari Cove, the police at first suspect a tragic accident, a misstep that cost the man his life. However, when the victim is found to have been a former policeman and that the cause of death was actually carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin a murder investigation. Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as 'Detective Galileo', is in Hari Cove to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, and finds himself drawn into the case. Did the murd...
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(P/B) MALICE
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, in a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems. Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same high school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Osamu Nonoguchi left to bec...
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