He not only disposes off the body but also plots the cover up step by step. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko’s next door neighbor Ishigami who is a brilliant mathematician offers his help. He threatens both Yasuko and Misato and somehow the situation escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead in their apartment. Her life turns upside down when her abusive ex-husband Togashi barges into her life again to extort money from her. Yasuko is a divorced, single mother who lives a quiet life along with her teenaged daughter Misato. The reader is presented with the murder at the start of the novel. Now coming to the book, Set in Tokyo, The Devotion of Suspect X is a crime fiction with a difference. The movie is loosely inspired by the book but that’s it and this in no way interferes with the reading experience. The movie has somewhat vaguely similar plot but the overall setting and treatment is so different that watching the movie and reading the book turn out to be completely different experience. Finally after so many months, I picked the book. I became quite curious about the novel but was a bit reluctant because what fun is crime fiction when you already know what’s going to happen. The movie was brilliant but it was said that the movie was based on The Devotion of Suspect X. I came to know about Keigo Higashino when I watched the movie Drishyam .
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