malicious

🌸 Introduction

"Dead," said the man.

The woman let out a heart-piercing wail.

Dead, the man thought.

He almost laughed out loud.

He harbored the deepest malice in his heart, so deep that even he couldn't explain it. This hatred is bottomless, what is the source of this malice? Even if you gamble your whole life, you must achieve your goals.

The popular writer Kunihiko Hidaka was killed before leaving the country, and the police quickly identified the murderer. The man confessed to having committed the crime on a whim. The case is now closed. But the Kaga police officer who handled the case didn't think so, because he couldn't find the murderer's motive for committing the crime, and the murderer kept avoiding it. Kaga didn't want to close the case hastily, so he made a lot of visits. The gradually revealed truth made him feel cold and malicious——

"Malicious" is Keigo Higashino's full-length masterpiece challenging the limit of writing! I have never encountered such a case: killing is not an end, but a means; death is not an end, but a beginning. After reading "Maliciousness", you can really know Keigo Higashino.

🌸 Media and celebrity comments

Keigo Higashino blends Dostoevsky-esque psychological realism with Agatha Christie, EC Bentley-esque classic detective puzzles. ——The Wall Street Journal

There are more twists, detours, sharp bends, and sudden stops in "Malicious" than the Tokyo Expressway during Golden Week. Keigo Higashino has proved through this book that his mastery of suspense stories has been perfected. --"New York Times"

In "Maliciousness", which inherits the style of the golden age of mystery novels, whenever you think Keigo Higashino has exhausted the possibility of reversal, he will offer a new one. -- "Kirkus Reviews"

As a mystery novel, "Maliciousness" is extremely tortuous, complicated and thorough; at the same time, it deeply reveals human nature, reaching a depth that many pure literature works fail to achieve. —— Zhian