![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But if you like riddles inside enigmas, it will please you no end." - John O'Connell, The Guardian " The Devotion of Suspect X is cold and mechanical and has no truck with such niceties as psychological verisimilitude.George Eliot less so." - David Pilling, Financial Times Agatha Christie would be mightily impressed. (.) In the end, the ingenuity of the plot is not quite matched by the credibility of the inner drama. Yet the emotional outlines are not as surely drawn as the plot-led story. This psychological driver sets it apart from more run-of-the-mill crime thrillers. ![]() But it is Ishigami’s devotion to his next-door neighbour, Yasuko, that is the book’s emotional motor. So is the mental tussle between Ishigami, a socially awkward maths genius, and Yukawa, a former classmate turned crime-unravelling physicist. "Certainly, the plot is taut and intriguing.容疑者Xの献身 was made into a film, Suspect X, in 2008, directed by Nishitani Hiroshiī- : fairly clever twist to it, but hamfisted presentation and too melodramatic in its conclusion.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. The Devotion of Suspect X - Higashino Keigo ![]()
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