Obsessively thorough, Kaga’s questioning goes far beyond the wife and close friend – on his roster of interviewees are the neighbor with a dead cat, colleagues past and present, extended relatives, and even acquaintances and pals from decades back when Hidaka and Nonoguchi were just becoming friends as young boys. Enter Detective Kyoichiro Kaga, who years before taught at the same school as Nonoguchi before both their careers respectively diverged away from the academic. Rie went ahead to the hotel where Hidaka was to join her later that evening before that, Nonoguchi was to meet Hidaka for an in-person conversation at the Hidaka home. The last people to see novelist Hidaka – a perennial bestselling success – alive were his second wife of just one month, Rie, and a childhood friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Revealing the many layers of whydunnit and howdunnit is consistently fascinating, switching back and forth from a truculently unreliable narrator to a tenaciously persistent detective who accepts nothing at face value. You won’t have to wait long to find out whodunnit – but don’t let that deter you in any way, because you’ll have to get to the very final page to learn exactly who to blame. Just before Kumihiko Hidaka is to move from Tokyo to Vancouver, he’s found in his home office … dead.
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