![]() ![]() He calls Hidaka’s wife at the hotel where she’s staying, and the two enter Hidaka’s locked office-where they find the writer’s murdered corpse. ![]() When Nonoguchi returns to Hidaka’s home, the house is dark. But during his dinner Nonoguchi receives a telephone call: Hidaka, upset, asks his friend to hurry back and help him. ![]() When Nonoguchi leaves, Hidaka-on the eve of moving to Canada with his wife-is poised to spend several hours alone writing the final installment of a story due that night. Once Hidaka arrives, so does another female visitor: a woman angry over the author’s thinly veiled portrait of her late brother in one of his novels. Waiting for Hidaka to come home that Tuesday afternoon, Nonoguchi finds a woman prowling in his friend’s garden: a neighbor who thinks Hidaka has poisoned her cat. He is remembering events before and after the murder of his friend, the best-selling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka. “The incident took place on April 16, 1996, a Tuesday.” So begins a first-person account by ex-teacher Osamu Nonoguchi. “Malice” (Minotaur, 276 pages, $24.95) is a prime example. Keigo Higashino again proves his mastery of the diabolical puzzle mystery with Malice, a story with more turns, twists, switchbacks and sudden stops than a Tokyo highway during Golden Week. Keigo Higashino combines Dostoyevskian psychological realism with classic detective-story puzzles reminiscent of Agatha Christie and E.C. ![]()
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