Apparently, it is Ishigami, a teacher who lives next door, and who seems willing to do anything for Yasuko including hiding the dead for her and they hatch a plot on how to cover up the crime. The two, panic and are discussing on how Yasuko Hanaoka will turn herself to the cops when someone knocks on the door. One day, Misato hits her father, Togashi, who in return attacks the little girl, this forces the both the mother and the daughter to join forces in a life or death struggle, and soon Togashi is strangled on the floor. As much as she tries to stay away from the abusive man, the more he comes around and extorts money from her. Her abusive ex-husband, Togashi is, however, making everything on Yasuko side difficult. She is now working a good and respectable job, one which makes it possible for her to raise her daughter, Misato.

Yasuko Hanaoka is a single mom who’s just trying to get ahead after divorcing her abusive husband. The series features Detective Galileo, also known as Manabu Yukawa is a physics professor and a police officer Kusanagi. The Devotion of Suspect X is book three in Detective Galileo series by bestselling Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino. Keigo Higashino served as a 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from the year 2009 to 2013. The English version of The Devotion of Suspect X was a nominee for 2012 Edgar Award for Best Novel category, and in the same year, the novel was also nominated Barry Award for the best first novel.Īpart from writing mystery novels, Keigo Higashino, the author also wrote storybook and essays for children, and his unique style of writing novels and other books differs in that he does not use many characters in other works as in his novels. The Devotion of Suspect X also won the 6th Honkaku Mystery Award and subsequently ranked as book number one by Kono Mystery gas Sugoi in 2006 and the Honkaku Mystery Best 10 the same year. Some of his novels have been nominated several times for various awards. Later in 2006, he was listed as the 134th winner of Naoki Prize for the novel The Devotion of Suspect. The author was awarded the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1999 for his novel Naoko, which was later years translated into English and published by Vertical Inc later in 2004. In 1985, at the age of 27, Higashino quit his job as an engineer and began a full-time writing career. The author is an award winner of the Edogawa Rampo Prize, a prize that is awarded annually to writers who have finest but unpublished mystery works. Soon after his graduation, Higashino dedicated his part-time into writing while working as an electrical engineer at Nippon Denso Co.

Higashino graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Osaka Prefecture University. He was born on February 4th, 1958 in Osaka, Japan.

Keigo Higashino is a Japanese novelist popularly known for his mystery novels.

Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino