The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

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What follows is a compulsive game of cat-and-mouse between ‘detective Galileo’ and Suspect X. We know the identity and motivations of the perpetrator. By the end of the first chapter readers witness the murder that is at the centre of this novel. The Devotion of Suspect X is an unusual detective novel.

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino