Even though the answer to “whodunit” comes in the first 20 pages of The Devotion of Suspect X, what keeps you reading is what happens next. When an argument with her abusive ex-husband goes horribly wrong, Yasuko’s neighbor (and stalker?) Ishigami embraces the chance to insert himself into her life, taking it upon himself to cover up the crime. The new questions become: How does he do it? Why? Will they be caught? Will his devotion remain steadfast, even as it becomes clear that his love is not reciprocated by Yasuko? What follows is a fascinating cat-and-mouse game. Ishigami, the math genius, finds himself pitted against his former classmate Manabu Yukawa, the physics professor that goes by the moniker Inspector Galileo when he helps with police investigations.
Constantly witty and surprising, with a twist ending that will all but blindside you. The Devotion of Suspect X is a perfectly-paced, thoroughly modern twist on the classic puzzle mystery.
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