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A review by mweis
The Final Curtain by Keigo Higashino
3.25
*I received an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*
What a fun, twisty police procedural. This is the finale of the Detective Kaga series and the fourth translated book into English, though I don’t think it’s necessary to read anything before this. Kaga deals with two interconnected cases, a woman strangled in someone else’s apartment and a homeless man killed and burned in his tent, and somehow these cases also tie into the disappearance and death of Kaga’s mother many years previous.
I liked the way the cases all overlapped and the way the mystery unfurled throughout the book. The pacing made it hard to put the book down! I did find it sort of confusing to keep track of who was who, but I think that’s mostly due to being unfamiliar with Japanese. Overall I liked this quite a bit, though I think I prefer the Detective Galileo books.
What a fun, twisty police procedural. This is the finale of the Detective Kaga series and the fourth translated book into English, though I don’t think it’s necessary to read anything before this. Kaga deals with two interconnected cases, a woman strangled in someone else’s apartment and a homeless man killed and burned in his tent, and somehow these cases also tie into the disappearance and death of Kaga’s mother many years previous.
I liked the way the cases all overlapped and the way the mystery unfurled throughout the book. The pacing made it hard to put the book down! I did find it sort of confusing to keep track of who was who, but I think that’s mostly due to being unfamiliar with Japanese. Overall I liked this quite a bit, though I think I prefer the Detective Galileo books.