A Death in Tokyo

Kyoichiro Kaga, Book 3

By: Keigo Higashino

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino.

On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man, who he presumes to be drunk - only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest. He is dead.

Meanwhile, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.

But is he actually responsible for the crime? What is his connection to the victim? And why did the dying man drag himself from the crime scene to the Nihonbashi Bridge? Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga must piece together the answers to all of these questions in order to find the killer, but each answer he finds seems to throw up more questions...

Taking us deep into the heart of Tokyo, and reintroducing the charming and ingenious Detective Kyoichiro Kaga, A Death in Tokyo is another mind-bending and hugely satisfying murder mystery from the modern master of classic crime.

©2022 Keigo Higashino (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK

First mystery audiobook and did not disappoint

Definitely took way longer than if I read it physically, but other than that, quite love the experience where you can listen to it while doing something else (work, play games, or read other books)

Japanese police procedural

Despite the twists and turns, the logic of the story is always believable. There is a touch of humanity in the story which makes it moving.