Malice: A Mystery
(The Kyoichiro Kaga Series, 1)
Keigo Higashino, 1996
悪意
東野圭吾
Read in 2017
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✔ The Kyoichiro Kaga series (book 4 in Japanese)
✔ This time we have 2 narrators, Kaga and the killer
✔ The power of written record and our weakness
★★★★★ This time we have 2 narrators, Detective Kaga and the killer. We know who the killer is so we are looking for the WHYDONEIT, but, you will be tricked. A mystery filled with malice, a shockingly suitable title.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
In English this is the book one of The Kyoichiro Kaga series, and this is a good one to start (though Japanese book 3 "One of them killed her" is pretty good, maybe one day)
We have 2 narrators, our Detective Kaga, and the killer. We know who the killer is so WHYDONEIT.
The book starts with a chapter that has written notes from the killer, then a record by Kaga, then a confession of the killer, then Kaga's reminiscence, so you know from the start you should have been careful.
You know it, you knew it, yet you will be tricked, again and again.
Why do we believe things so easily?
From the notes and record you start to have some ideas about the people and their characters, notes leave strong first impressions, but how reliable is it?
How much do we trust the impressions and our interpretation?
Overall it's dark, it depicts depressing school life, and Kaga's gloomy past as a teacher.
The "fact" is repeatedly overturned, and in the end the final truth is the most despicable and the simple word "malice" is the perfect title.
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