Keigo Higashino

Read the book that sold over two million copies in Japan and became a national obsession

Now a major motion picture on Netflix, Jaane JaanYasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko's manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there's something wrong. Kusanagi brings in Dr. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist and college friend who frequently consults with the police. Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami. After meeting up with him again, Yukawa is convinced that Ishigami had something to do with the murder. What ensues is a high level battle of wits, as Ishigami tries to protect Yasuko by outmaneuvering and outthinking Yukawa, who faces his most clever and determined opponent yet.

The first stand-alone crime novel published in English in almost a decade by Keigo Higashino, the bestselling Japanese novelist.

If you knew you didn't have long to live, who would you tell? What would you say? And how would you deliver the message? Reito Naoi has just been fired. Enraged and fuelled by feelings of revenge, he tries to steal a valuable device from his workplace, but things don't go to plan, and he ends up arrested. In jail, Reito is paid an unexpected visit by a lawyer who offers to arrange for his release, if he complies with the wishes of the lawyer's client. Seeing no alternative, Reito accepts and soon discovers that the lawyer's client is his aunt. When Reito tells her that he has no plans for the future, she gives him an order: 'What I want you to do is to guard a camphor tree.' And thus begins Reito's custodianship of a camphor tree standing on the grounds of a shine - a camphor tree with a mysterious legend associated with it...

Detta är en känslosam japansk roman av Keigo Higashino. Genom mystiska händelser på Namiya General Store vävs en berättelse om sammanstötningar mellan förflutet och nu. Med passionerade karaktärer och djupgående teman bjuder den in läsare på en hjärtevärmande resa.

Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, and an impossible crime, are linked by nearly invisible threads in surprising ways. The body of a young man is found floating in Tokyo Bay. But his death was no accident--Ryota Uetsuji was shot. He'd been reported missing the week before by his live-in girlfriend Sonoka Shimauchi, but when detectives from the Homicide Squad go to interview her, she is nowhere to be found. She's taken time off from work, clothes and effects are missing from the apartment she shared. And when the detectives learn that she was the victim of domestic abuse, they presume that she was the killer. But her alibi is airtight--she was hours away in Kyoto when Ryota disappeared, forcing Detectives Kusanagi and Utsumi to restart their investigation. But if Sonoko didn't kill her abusive lover, then who did? A thin thread of association leads them to their old consultant, brilliant physicist Manabu Yukawa, known in the department as "Detective Galileo." With Sonoko still missing, the detectives investigate other threads of association--an eccentric artist, who was Sonoko's mother figure after her own single mother passed; and an older woman who is the owner of a hostess club. And how is Sonoko continuing to stay one step ahead of the police searching for her? It's up to Galileo to find the nearly hidden threads of history and coincidence that connect the people around the bloody murder- which, surprisingly, connect to his own traumatic past--to unravel not merely the facts of the crime but the helix that ties them all together.

From the acclaimed international bestseller Keigo Higashino (The Devotion of Suspect X) comes a sweeping novel in the tradition of Les Miserables and Crime and Punishment. This is the compelling story of a brutal crime and the two teenagers--Ryo, the son of the murdered man, and Yukiho, the daughter of the main suspect--whose lives remain inextricably linked over the twenty-year search for the truth behind the crime. In Osaka in 1973, the body of a murdered man is found in an abandoned building. Investigating the crime, Detective SasagakI is unable to find the killer. Over the next twenty years, through the lens of a succession of characters, Higashino tells the story of two teens, Ryo and Yukiho, whose lives are most affected by the crime, and the obsessed detective, Sasagaki, who continues to investigate the murder, looking for the elusive truth. Under the Midnight Sun is a complex, psychological novel about crime and its after-effects by one the most read and most accomplished contemporary mystery author. A twisting, compelling work that will astonish and delight Higashino's old fans and new readers alike.

Kejgo Khigasino - samyj prodavaemyj v Japonii avtor detektivov. Na rodine ego nazyvajut "mashinoj po proizvodstvu bestsellerov". On laureat dvukh samykh prestizhnykh ostrosjuzhetnykh nagrad strany - premii Edogavy Rampo i "Japonskoj detektivnoj literatury", - a takzhe premii Naoki (japonskogo analoga Bukera), Premii khonkaku i mnogikh drugikh. Po proizvedenijam Khigasino snjato bolee 50 filmov i serialov. Otsutstvie sledov - eto samyj otchetlivyj sled. Shkolnyj uchitel Ejiti Kamio obnaruzhen ubitym na zadnem dvore sobstvennogo doma pod zavalom iz kartonnykh korobok. On odet v vykhodnoj kostjum, no na nem net obuvi. V dome vse vverkh dnom, no nichego ne propalo. I vot chto osobenno zagadochno... Prichina smerti - perezhatie sosudov na shee; ego zadushili, no nikakikh sledov ni paltsev, ni verevki, ni chego-libo podobnogo prosto net. Politsija v tupike. No ne mladshij brat pokojnogo - illjuzionist-mentalist Takesi. Polzujas svoimi redchajshimi sposobnostjami, on nachinaet sobstvennoe rassledovanie. Dlja Takesi igra s dejstvitelnostju - neotemlemaja chast ego povsednevnoj zhizni. On umeet chitat ljudej po malejshim projavlenijam emotsij. On sposoben vovlech cheloveka v khitryj stsenarij protiv ego voli tak, chtoby tot nichego ne zametil. V interesakh dela on mozhet dazhe slegka podpravit realnost... ROMAN PEREVEDEN S JAPONSKOGO _______________________________________________________________________ "Vse-taki suschestvujut po-nastojaschemu zaputannye detektivy-golovolomki. Prosto ikh pishut po-japonski. Pishet Kejgo Khigasino, chi elegantnye rassledovanija - shedevry klassicheskoj deduktsii". - New York Times Book Review "Tekh, kto reguljarno pishet o detektivnoj literature, chasto sprashivajut: kakim budet sledujuschij veduschij ostrosjuzhetnyj trend? Esli by vse tvorenija japonskikh pisatelej kriminalnogo zhanra byli stol sovershenny, kak romany Khigasino, otvet okazalsja by ochevidnym: japonskie detektivy". - Independent "Agata Kristi byla by krajne vpechatlena". - Financial Times

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone in an apartment far away, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions. Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to death, left in the bare apartment rented under a false name by a man who has disappeared without a trace. Oshitani lived far away in Sendai, with no known connection to Tokyo - and neither her family nor friends have any idea why she would have gone there. Hers is the second strangulation death in that approximate area of Tokyo - the other was a homeless man, killed and his body burned in a tent by the river. As the police search through Oshitani's past for any clue that might shed some light, one of the detectives reaches out to Detective Kaga for advice. As the case unfolds, an unexpected connective emerges between the murder (or murders) now and the long-ago case of Detective Kaga's missing mother. The Final Curtain, one of Keigo Higashino's most acclaimed mysteries, brings the story of Detective Kaga to a surprising conclusion in a series of rich, surprising twists.

Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, and an impossible crime, are linked by nearly invisible threads in surprising ways. The body of a young man is found floating in Tokyo Bay. But his death was no accident--Ryota Uetsuji was shot. He'd been reported missing the week before by his live-in girlfriend Sonoka Shimauchi, but when detectives from the Homicide Squad go to interview her, she is nowhere to be found. She's taken time off from work, clothes and effects are missing from the apartment she shared. And when the detectives learn that she was the victim of domestic abuse, they presume that she was the killer. But her alibi is airtight--she was hours away in Kyoto when Ryota disappeared, forcing Detectives Kusanagi and Utsumi to restart their investigation. But if Sonoko didn't kill her abusive lover, then who did? A thin thread of association leads them to their old consultant, brilliant physicist Manabu Yukawa, known in the department as "Detective Galileo." With Sonoko still missing, the detectives investigate other threads of association--an eccentric artist, who was Sonoko's mother figure after her own single mother passed; and an older woman who is the owner of a hostess club. And how is Sonoko continuing to stay one step ahead of the police searching for her? It's up to Galileo to find the nearly hidden threads of history and coincidence that connect the people around the bloody murder- which, surprisingly, connect to his own traumatic past--to unravel not merely the facts of the crime but the helix that ties them all together.

En mystisk butik med olika föremål som lyssnar på alla slags bekymmer och problem. Människor som står vid vägskäl i sina liv samlas där. Bortom det förflutna och nuet börjar ett varmt brevutbyte... De omsorgsfullt vävda ledtrådarna förenas mirakulöst och skapar en hjärtevärmande berättelse.

KAIKKI PAHA ALKAA JOSTAKINMenestyskirjailija Kunihiko Hidaka löytyy murhattuna kotoaan päivää ennen kuin hänen oli tarkoitus muuttaa Vancouveriin. Vainajan löytävät Hidakan vaimo ja kirjailijan ystävä. Kummallakin on iskunkestävä alibi. Rikosetsivä Kyoichiro Kaga ryhtyy selvittämään tapahtunutta. Kagan yllätykseksi kirjailijan ystävä, Osamu Nonoguchi, on hänen vanha tuttunsa. Kaksikko opetti samassa koulussa, Kaga jatkoi luokkahuoneesta poliisiksi ja Nonoguchista tuli lastenkirjailija. Tutkinnan edetessä Kaga ymmärtää rikoksen poikkeuksellisen luonteen. Ei riitä, että selvittää kuka on syyllinen, pitää ymmärtää myös miksi. Totuus löytyy menneisyydestä, pureutumalla kahden kirjailijan mutkikkaaseen suhteeseen. ----Pahan asialla on Higashinoa klassisimmillaan: spiraalimaisesti etenevä mysteeridekkari, josta ei käänteitä puutu. Yllätystakuu!----"Pirullisen nokkela."- Publishers Weekly"Higashino yhdistää dostojevskimäisen psykologisen realismin klassiseen mysteeridekkariin à la Agatha Christie." - Wall Street Journal"Higashino teki sen taas! Mestarillisen ovela mysteeri." - New York Times

Sovershiv prestuplenie, troe druzej - Kokhej, Atsuja i Sjota - prjachutsja v zapustelom i neprimechatelnom magazinchike. V ozhidanii utra junye prestupniki zamechajut, chto v eto zabytoe mirom mesto prodolzhajut prikhodit ljudi. Oni tainstvennym obrazom ostavljajut pisma cherez pochtovuju schel v dveri. I kazhdoe iz nikh - eto prosba dat sovet na muchajuschij ikh vopros ili dushevnaja ispoved. Chitaja istorii neznakomtsev, otpravljajuschikh vestochki skvoz vremja i prostranstvo, geroi nachinajut sobstvennoe issledovanie etogo volshebnogo magazinchika. Oni i ne znali, chto, zhelaja perezhdat burju, vdrug popadut v epitsentr tornado nevoobrazimykh chudes.

Füüsikaprofessor Manabu Yukawa - uurija Galileo - seisab pea lahendamatuna näiva mõistatuse ees, kus tema vaist ütleb üht, aga faktid hoopis midagi muud. Mees, kes kavatses oma naise maha jätta, joob mürgitatud kohvi ja sureb. Loogiliseks kahtlusaluseks on tema abikaasa Ayane, kellel on aga mõrva ajaks vankumatu alibi. Lisaks on Tokyo politsei mõrvagrupi juhtuurija Kusanagi naisest kõrvuni sisse võetud ega taha kuuldagi, et tol võiks kuritööga midagi pistmist olla. Noor naisuurija Kaoru Utsumi on siiski kindel, et mõrvar on Ayane. Veendumusest üksi ei piisa ja nii teeb Kaoru seda, mida tema ülemus on hätta jäädes alati teinud - ta helistab professor Manabu Yukawale. Keigo Higashino "Pühaku lunastus" on rabava meisterlikkusega komponeeritud mõrvamüsteerium, kus tunded võistlevad faktide ja reaalsus vaistuga ning lõpplahendus - mis üllatab isegi kogenud krimifänne! - ei olegi ehk nii oluline, kui tee, mida mööda tõeni jõutakse. Keigo Higashino sulest on eesti keeles varem ilmunud "Andunud kahtlusalune", mille kaudu Eesti lugejad esmakordselt palavalt armastatud detektiiv Galileo sarjaga kohtusid.