The mathematician and the physicist, each responding other with a move. Both, the police and the accused play an astute, graceful game of chess – with two characters that stand out clearly. The next chapters unfold the plot layer by layer. Yukawa is also nicknamed as Inspector Galileo. Manabu Yukawa as a friend in Imperial college – this man often helps him close cases. Kusanagi has an intelligent physicist friend, Dr. In comes an observant, honest police detective Kusanagi – to his consternation even though everything on surface seems fine – Yasuko is too gentle to commit a pre-meditated murder and she also seems to have an alibi for the night of the murder – something doesn’t ‘feel’ right. Unexpectedly, she finds an ally in her neighbour Ishigami, who is a mathematician. Yasuko, once a night club hostess now works in a box lunch place. Suspicion naturally falls over beautiful Yasuko who only wants to protect her daughter. The murdered man is abusive, ex-husband of Yasuko who has been stalking her for years. Yet despite its suspenseful plot, this book is not a who-dunit as any decent review will tell you.

It is actually third book in his Inspector Galileo series, published in 2005 and widely translated and transformed into movies and TV shows. The Devotion of Suspect X is what I call one-sitting-novel, it is written by Keigo Higashimo.

But that is something I will leave you to find about yourself. This is one of those books where the meaning of the title sinks in with full force only when you have finished reading the book.

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