Over ten years ago, I was a homeroom teacher at a middle school, in charge of a class of ninth-graders. * * * I know something about bullying, though not firsthand (as either victim or aggressor-at least, not so far as I’m aware). I’m now convinced that it is impossible to understand what happened on the day Hidaka died without first understanding this troubled history. Once I realized the significance of those events, several other parts of the story fell into place. It is part of a series of books by Higashino starring the detective Kyoichiro Kaga. Though the evidence and testimony add up to something like a box of unassembled jigsaw-puzzle pieces at the moment, I do have at least an idea of the completed picture in my mind, a picture that I believe reveals the full truth behind this case.Īt the heart of everything is the bullying that took place during Nonoguchi’s and Hidaka’s middle school years, and which defined their future relat. Malice is a mystery novel written by famous Japanese author Keigo Higashino and published in 2014.
I’m sure there are others I haven’t been able to track down, but I feel I’ve obtained all I need for now. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the writer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded.To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: There he finds evidence that shows that the two writers' relationship was very different than they claimed. When Kaga suspects something is a little bit off with Nonoguchi's statement, he investigates further, ultimately executing a search warrant on Nonoguchi's apartment. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi became a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend from years ago when they were both teachers. 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. Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver.
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