A Death in Tokyo: A Mystery
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In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is faced with a very public murder that doesn't quite add up, a prime suspect unable to defend himself, and pressure from the highest levels for a quick solution.
In the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo an unusual statue of a Japanese mythic beast - a kirin - stands guard over the district from the classic Nihonbashi bridge. In the evening, a man who appears to be very drunk staggers onto the bridge and collapses right under the statue of the winged beast. The patrolman who sees this scene unfold goes to rouse the man, only to discover that the man has not passed out, he is dead; that he was not drunk, he was stabbed in the chest. However, where he died was not where the crime was committed - the key to solving the crime is to find out where he was attacked and why he made such a superhuman effort to carry himself to the Nihonbashi Bridge. That same night, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident while attempting to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.
Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga is assigned to the team investigating the murder - and must bring his skills to bear to uncover what actually happened that night on the Nihonbashi bridge. What, if any, connection is there between the murdered man and Yashima, the young man caught with his wallet? Kaga's investigation takes him down dark roads and into the unknown past to uncover what really happened and why.
A Death in Tokyo is another mind-bending mystery from the modern master of classic crime, finalist for both an Edgar Award and a CWA Dagger, the internationally bestselling Keigo Higashino.
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Keigo Higashino. (2022). A Death in Tokyo: A Mystery. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
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In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is faced with a very public murder that doesn't quite add up, a prime suspect unable to defend himself, and pressure from the highest levels for a quick solution.
In the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo an unusual statue of a Japanese mythic beast - a kirin - stands guard over the district from the classic Nihonbashi bridge. In the evening, a man who appears to be very drunk staggers onto the bridge and collapses right under the statue of the winged beast. The patrolman who sees this scene unfold goes to rouse the man, only to discover that the man has not passed out, he is dead; that he was not drunk, he was stabbed in the chest. However, where he died was not where the crime was committed - the key to solving the crime is to find out where he was attacked and why he made such a superhuman effort to carry himself to the Nihonbashi Bridge. That same night, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident while attempting to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.
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July 1, 2022
The body of a murdered man is deposited on Tokyo's Nihonbashi Bridge beneath the statue of a kirin--a benevolent winged creature originating in Chinese mythology and seen throughout East and Southeast Asia--even as a young man dashing from the police is discovered with the victim's wallet. But they've never met. Edgar/CWA finalist Higashino (Silent Parade) gives Det. Kyoichiro Kaga another case. With a 35,000-copy first printing.
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September 26, 2022
In Higashino’s disappointing third mystery featuring Insp. Kyoichiro Kaga (after 2018’s Newcomer), Kaga helps his homicide detective cousin, a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, investigate the murder of Takeaki Aoyagi, a supervisor at Kanseki Metals, who was knifed in an underground passageway before staggering onto a nearby bridge and dying. The subsequent discovery of Aoyagi’s wallet on the person of Fuyuki Yashima, a former Kanseki Metals employee, makes Yashima the logical suspect, with theft his apparent motive. This find, however, came only after Yashima, spotted by a cop hiding in a park, was hit by a truck when he fled into the street and was left in a coma. Kaga’s digging suggests that Yashima may be innocent, despite the circumstantial evidence against him, and that the killer targeted Aoyagi for reasons other than theft. Higashino does his usual fine job of imbuing even walk-on characters with depth, but this entry, unlike his best work, lacks the logical and fair surprises that are his trademarks, and will prompt few to gasp in astonishment at the final reveals. Higashino falls short of his own high standards.
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The fatal stabbing of a prominent businessman in the heart of Tokyo unleashes a fury of scandals. No sooner has Takeaki Aoyagi, head of production at Kaneseki Metals, collapsed on the Nihonbashi Bridge than police spot a possible suspect fleeing the scene. Struck by a car before they can catch him, Fuyuki Yashima turns out to be carrying Aoyagi's wallet; the dead man's briefcase is found nearby. Yashima can say nothing in his own defense because he's in a coma. So Inspector Kyoichiro Kaga and his cousin, Detective Shuhei Matsumiya, of the Tokyo Metropolitan homicide squad, have to be satisfied with questioning Yashima's live-in lover, Kaori Nakahara, who's three months pregnant. Yashima, she tells them, had been unemployed since losing his job with Kaneseki Metals under circumstances that turn out to implicate Aoyagi in a shameful coverup and give Yashima a perfect motive for his murder. Though Yashima's death gives them an excuse to close the case, Kaga and Matsumiya persist in digging deeper and find evidence that Aoyagi had been making the circuit of the Seven Lucky Gods, leaving a flock of origami cranes at the Kasama Inari Shrine. What was his motive for his pilgrimage, and what other foul secrets lie beneath it? Though the alternative explanations for Aoyagi's murder, unfolding in strict succession, have little to do with one another, Higashino unfolds them with the force of a powerful indictment against the corruption that seems to pervade his great city. The dark side--make that sides--of Tokyo, masterfully revealed.COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Star detectives (and cousins) Kyoichiro Kaga and Shuhei Matsumiya (last seen in Newcomer, 2018) are partnered on a task force investigating the puzzling stabbing of a manufacturing executive. The victim, Takeaki Aoyagi, staggered to Tokyo's Nihonbashi bridge and died against the famed Kirin statues. Nearby, down-on-his-luck Fuyuki Yashima is found with Aoyagi's belongings and is hit by a truck while fleeing the police. Kaga and Matsumiya discover a startling connection between the victim and their suspect: Fuyuki was fired from one of Aoyagi's factories after he was injured on the job. The media seizes on the revenge theory, and when it's revealed that Aoyagi's company has been covering up workplace safety issues, the scandal sparks a tide of public outrage. Kaga, however, has too many unanswered questions to buy the revenge theory, and his dogged canvassing of Nihonbashi's vendors unravels an emotional story of buried guilt and a father's lessons in redemption. Parallels between the case's resolution and Kaga's conflicts about honoring his own father's death highlight Higashino's masterfully constructed tale.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Takeaki Aoyagi appears to be sleeping on the Nihonbashi Bridge, but when a police officer approaches, he sees a knife sticking out of his chest. As police search the neighborhood for witnesses, they came upon Fuyuki Yashima, who, when they attempt to question him, flees and gets hit by a truck. Yashima had Aoyagi's wallet and briefcase, and it seems like an open-and-shut case. Detectives Kaga and Matsumiya are part of the investigating team. Ace detective Kaga is not convinced Yashima killed Aoyagi--the connection between the two men was thin. Yashima, a temporary worker, reported to Aoyagi at the metal plant where they worked. When Yashima was involved in a workplace accident, he was fired. Did he ask for his old job back, and Aoyagi refused? Yashima's girlfriend said he would never hurt anyone, but perhaps something provoked him. There could also be another motive for murder that the detectives have missed as Kaga doggedly searches for the truth. VERDICT This solid police procedural, the third in the Kaga series (after Newcomer), stands alone. Despite a less than compelling plot, fans of smart detectives with less observant, more laid-back sidekicks (� la Holmes and Watson) will enjoy this book through all its twists and turns.--Ed Goldberg
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