The devotion of suspect x by Keigo Higashino….
Once in a while you read a novel that literally takes your breath away and makes your raise the bar of expectations from other stories!!..
This multi award winning novel (with even a movie) was in my reading list for ages!… The original was in Japanese though and the English translation is good too!!…
Ever since I saw the Malayalam movie Drishyam (one of my favourites ever!) And read about this novel in the Wikipedia page I was earnestly waiting to read this one!…. But it took three years to finally get to it!…. Better late than never!!…
This is no longer the era of whodunit or a simple murder!… You have a victim and you have a murderer!….. But this is the age of twists and being twisted!….a simple momentary lapse of emotion leads to a murder and the whole plot shifts from that to the brilliant mathematician (mild spoiler alert!) Who finally just controls the various outcomes of the investigations just like a mathematical equation!!…..
It’s just mind blowing how every aspect of investigation is being contoured and tinted in the direction which has been pushed without any effort by the protagonist!….
At the end of it all everything is just logic and calculations without emotion though the whole set up was in fact the result of a big emotional deluge!!…
So we have a single parent divorced mother who gets threatened by her ex husband and one thing leads to another and you have a murder…… Just like Dhrishyam, the lead tries to make rock solid alibis and remotely controls every aspect of the investigation….
The best part here is that he even manages to Change the date of murder!!….(don’t worry that’s not a big spoiler!!)….in the movie the suspects stood the investigation team with firmness since they had actually done the things they were describing, like watching movie or having a particular food in a particular restaurant!… Only thing they had to remember that the date was different!..
But in the novel by a big twist the suspects just had to narrate everyone what they did without any date change!…how he managed to do that is the biggest spoiler!….
Many though would ask why to spend so much time and resources in finding the killer of a wastrel who probably deserved it when there were so many bigger cases to solve!…..
So what you think as a Geometric pattern is actually algebra apparently!!…
Don’t miss this for the world!!…
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