Friday, October 30, 2015

Journey under the midnight sun

Author: Keigo Higashino
Genre: Fiction

A pawnshop owner is found murdered in an abandoned building. The primary suspects die - one in an accident and another in an attempted suicide. As the trail goes cold detective Sasagaki is sure that something obvious is missing. He tracks the various characters over a span of two decades and unravels the story that all began with a simple murder.

The narration skips years without ever explicitly mentioning so and sometimes its only towards the end of a few paragraphs that I would realize the passing of time. I found that style interesting.

And the story is good too. Not at par with Devotion of Suspect X but definitely better than many other fiction titles.

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