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Malice: A Mystery Audiobook
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Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems. At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers' relationship was very different that they claimed, that they were anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn't necessarily who, or how, but why. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn't able to uncover and prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out. Malice is one of the bestselling—the most acclaimed—novel in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular creations of the bestselling novelist in Asia.
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“As the story is told in alternating first-person narratives by Kaga andNonoguchi, narrator Jeff Woodman expertly differentiates the two so there isnever any confusion for the listener. Kaga is portrayed as calm, soft spoken,and steely. Nonoguchi is more outgoing and manipulative. Although the murdereris exposed early on, Kaga continues to hunt for a motive and explores multipletheories, including plagiarism and bullying in Japanese schools. Woodman’snarration is compelling and clear throughout this twisty puzzle. He neverhesitates with the Japanese names and lends an authentic air to this ‘whydunit,’ translated from Japanese.”
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“Keigo Higashino combines Dostoyevskian psychological realism with classic detective-story puzzles reminiscent of Agatha Christie and E. C. Bentley.”
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“Keigo Higashino again proves his mastery of the diabolical puzzle mystery with Malice…Admirers of the well-made whodunit know the drill about questioning facts and suspecting everyone. Higashino plays this game as well as any of those legendary golden-age authors poring over their railroad timetables. But what makes him a genius at this sport is the care with which he devises a motive…to fit the crime.”
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“Fiendishly clever…Higashino offers one twist after another…Readers will marvel at the artful way the plot builds to the solution.”
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“This smart and original mystery is a true page-turner…will baffle, surprise, and draw out suspicion until the final few pages. With each book, Higashino continues to elevate the modern mystery as an intense and inventive literary form.”
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“Keigo Higashino combines Dostoyevskian psychological realism with classic detective-story puzzles reminiscent of Agatha Christie and E.C. Bentley.
— Wall Street Journal -
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.
— The New York Times Book Review -
This smart and original mystery is a true page-turner... will baffle, surprise, and draw out suspicion until the final few pages. With each book, Higashino continues to elevate the modern mystery as an intense and inventive literary form.
— Library Journal (starred review) -
Fiendishly clever... Higashino offers one twist after another... Readers will marvel at the artful way the plot builds to the solution.
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
The creator of Detective Galileo (Salvation of a Saint, 2012, etc.) returns with another fiendishly clever Chinese--make that Japanese--box of a whydunit... If you still miss the days of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, you can't do better than this fleet, inventive retro puzzler.
— Kirkus Reviews
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Nominated for the 2015 Audie Award for Mystery
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An October 2014 LibraryReads Pick
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Among shortlisted titles for Audie Award Finalist, 2015
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About Keigo Higashino
Keigo Higashino is the bestselling, best-known novelist in Japan and around Asia, with television and film adaptations of his work in several languages and many prestigious awards. He’s the author of The Devotion of Suspect X, the English translation of which was the finalist for the Edgar Award for best novel, and Salvation of a Saint.
About Jeff Woodman
Jeff Woodman is an actor and narrator. He is a winner of the prestigious Audie Award and a six-time finalist. He has received twenty Earphones Awards and was named the 2008 Best Voice in Fiction & Classics, as well as one of the Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century by AudioFile magazine. As an actor, he originated the title role in Tennessee Williams’ The Notebook of Trigorin and won the S. F. Critics’ Circle Award for his performance in An Ideal Husband. In addition to numerous theater credits on and off Broadway, his television work includes Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Cosby.