It’s one of those days. The rare occurrence that I am up before sunrise. I stand in the kitchen and watch the sun climb higher. I could stare forever. At the angry, rising mass of…
A ghost narrator does not automatically turn a story into a supernatural thriller. Thrillers rely on uncertainty, danger, and the destabilising intrusion of the unknown. But when the narrator is already dead, the fundamental mystery…
Keigo Higashino’s The Devotion of Suspect X is, at first glance, a familiar kind of crime novel. A murder takes place. A seemingly perfect alibi emerges. Detectives investigate. Yet very quickly, the novel reveals itself…