A Death in Tokyo
A Mystery
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is faced with a very public murder that doesn't quite add up, a prime suspect unable to defend himself, and pressure from the highest levels for a quick solution.
In the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo an unusual statue of a Japanese mythic beast - a kirin - stands guard over the district from the classic Nihonbashi bridge. In the evening, a man who appears to be very drunk staggers onto the bridge and collapses right under the statue of the winged beast. The patrolman who sees this scene unfold goes to rouse the man, only to discover that the man has not passed out, he is dead; that he was not drunk, he was stabbed in the chest. However, where he died was not where the crime was committed - the key to solving the crime is to find out where he was attacked and why he made such a superhuman effort to carry himself to the Nihonbashi Bridge. That same night, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident while attempting to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.
Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga is assigned to the team investigating the murder - and must bring his skills to bear to uncover what actually happened that night on the Nihonbashi bridge. What, if any, connection is there between the murdered man and Yashima, the young man caught with his wallet? Kaga's investigation takes him down dark roads and into the unknown past to uncover what really happened and why.
A Death in Tokyo is another mind-bending mystery from the modern master of classic crime, finalist for both an Edgar Award and a CWA Dagger, the internationally bestselling Keigo Higashino.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Higashino's disappointing third mystery featuring Insp. Kyoichiro Kaga (after 2018's Newcomer), Kaga helps his homicide detective cousin, a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, investigate the murder of Takeaki Aoyagi, a supervisor at Kanseki Metals, who was knifed in an underground passageway before staggering onto a nearby bridge and dying. The subsequent discovery of Aoyagi's wallet on the person of Fuyuki Yashima, a former Kanseki Metals employee, makes Yashima the logical suspect, with theft his apparent motive. This find, however, came only after Yashima, spotted by a cop hiding in a park, was hit by a truck when he fled into the street and was left in a coma. Kaga's digging suggests that Yashima may be innocent, despite the circumstantial evidence against him, and that the killer targeted Aoyagi for reasons other than theft. Higashino does his usual fine job of imbuing even walk-on characters with depth, but this entry, unlike his best work, lacks the logical and fair surprises that are his trademarks, and will prompt few to gasp in astonishment at the final reveals. Higashino falls short of his own high standards.
