Yasuko becomes the number one suspect for the police but she has a rock solid alibi completely arranged by Ishigami.
They belonged to a man named Shinji Togashi.Yasuko Hanaoka’s ex-husband. The police also found an abandoned bicycle nearby It was fairly new and both of its tires were flat. The body was stripped of all clothes, the face was smashed and the fingers were burned so the police could not identify the body by dental records or fingerprints. The body had been left on an embankment wrapped in a blue plastic tarp. He convinces Yasuko to let him help and says he will take care of everything, including disposing of the body.ĭetective Kusanagi is called to investigate a crime scene along the Edogawa River along the Tokyo side, across from Chiba Prefecture. He has heard he scuffle and when he rings the doorbell after things quiet down to ask if he can help, he spots a body half-hidden underneath the kotatsu. Ishigami is a mathematical genius who currently works at a local high school.
Yasuko’s world is shaken up by the unexpected appearance of her ex-husband and she ends up killing him in self-defense. She divorced her abusive husband five years prior and currently works at a bento shop in town. Yasuko Hanaoka is a single mother with a daughter in high school. Yukawa has helped solve many cases for the police and has garnered the nickname of Professor Galileo, named after the famous scientist who supported Copernicus’s theory that the sun was the center of the universe and the Earth revolved around it. The Devotion of Suspect X is the first English publication in a series to feature physicist and part-time sleuth Manabu Yukawa, translated from the Japanese by Alexander O. Over two million copies of his books have been sold and many of them have been adapted into successful films. He is one of the most popular mystery writers in Japan. The London Times calls Keigo Higashino “The Japanese Stieg Larsson”.
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