In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and published by Vertical under the title of Naoko in 2004.
Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo. He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27.
Keigo Higashino ( 東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan-as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.īorn in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO). Salvation for a Saint is Keigo Higashino at his mind-bending best, pitting emotion against fact in a beautifully plotted crime novel filled with twists and reverses that will astonish and surprise even the most attentive and jaded of listeners. Yukawa has trouble with this one, and he must somehow find a way to solve an impossible murder and capture a very real, very deadly murderer. So she does what her boss has done for years when stymied-she calls upon Professor Manabu Yukawa.īut even the brilliant mind of Dr. While Utsumi's instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect-except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as "stunning," "brilliant," and "ingenious." Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa-Detective Galileo-returns in a new case of impossible murder, where instincts clash with facts and theory with reality. In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring "Detective Galileo"
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