A review by audreysy
A Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino

emotional mysterious sad

4.0

as usual with higashino works, he gives us a masterful depiction of classic detective work while remaining empathic and sensitive towards his characters. the ending did have my heartstrings twinging a bit, very bittersweet. i will argue though that this is one of his weaker works with regards to the mystery itself. the pacing was a bit slow at first then sped up towards the end. in addition, there wasn’t much of an indication towards the culprit before he was revealed (apart from some lines dropped just a few pages before), and the resolution wasn’t clear cut and tightly resolved. the storyline as well of the employee who stole the wallet was unsatisfactorily wrapped up in my opinion though i guess that was just a reflection of how we can’t completely know everything?