Keigo Higashino is my favorite author ever,
Each of his novels is worth reading,
About human nature,
All described in his novels.
Today I recommend the TOP10 of Higashino's works in my mind.
1. "Malice"
The best-selling author was killed in his home the night before going abroad. The murderer was quickly arrested, confessed to the crime, but wanted to die quickly, but did not know the motive for the crime. Is he really a crime? Why kill? After thoroughly investigating the victim's past with the murderer, the police officer felt a boundless chill like falling into the abyss in the face of the fact that the facts and methods of the case were unremarkable...
Malice is also the well-deserved first in my heart.
I still remember that I thought my fate was destined,
The shock of the reversal again at the last moment.
The cruelty of human nature is clearly distinguished in his cocoon,
I just felt a chill in my bones.
2. "Relief Grocery Store"
What is lost in the hearts of modern people, this grocery store can help you find it.
There is a grocery store next to the secluded street, and if you write down your worries and throw them into the letter of the roller shutter door, you will get an answer in the milk carton behind the store the next day. Because her boyfriend is terminally ill, the young girl Shizuko is hovering between love and dreams; Kroko leaves home for the sake of music dreams, but it is difficult to walk in reality; the young Kosuke faces family changes and struggles in the confusion of family affection and future... They wrote a letter of confusion into the grocery store, and then wonderful things kept happening.
A chance rendezvous in life,
How will you interpret a very different life?
"My answers worked because of nothing else, but because they worked hard."
3. Midnight Night
In 1973, a man stabbed to death with a sharp object was found in an abandoned building in Osaka. The case is elusive and unresolved. In the following 20 years, the evil born out of the case gradually sprouted and grew, and the flower of evil blossomed. The lives of those involved in the case are gradually shrouded in an increasingly heavy shadow. Some people go to high society, some people wander and struggle in the dark night. Only one old policeman kept tracking down and gradually spelling out the shocking truth.
This White Night's Walk is one of Higashino Keigo's best-known masterpieces to date, with all the elements of a classic masterpiece: sad love, a paradoxical fate, heinous crime, a complex human duel and redemption... A bizarre murder case leads to a thrilling story spanning nearly 20 years, making people sad and moved in the love that redeems sin.
4. 《Newcomer》
In Tokyo, in the Nihonbashi area, which is full of traditional customs, a single woman who has just moved in is brutally strangled and killed, and Kaga, a criminal police officer who has just been transferred to the local police station, begins to investigate. Father-daughter quarrels, mother-son misunderstandings, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts... Under the ordinary surface of Ichijing's life, Kaga peels back the cocoon, not only cracking the emotional mystery and restoring the truth of the doubtful case, but also upholding compassion, treating the trauma caused by the case, encouraging the suffering and helping the frustrated to move forward.
Some seemingly ordinary life, there are touching details, who said that the boss hates the straight employees, who said that the mother-in-law is intolerable... By the way, what is a victim? Kaga's definition: Anyone who is sad because of a case is a victim. In addition to solving the case, the police must also reassure everyone who is sad because of the case.
This is the eighth book in the Kaga series, the second in my heart of the Kaga series, and one of the highest masterpieces in the series to date. In this book, Kaga can solve the mystery not by imagining it, nor by reasoning with strict logic, but by "emotion". When all the wonderful duels fade with time, all that remains is kaga's warmth.
5. "The Dedication of Suspect X"
How far can you love someone? What kind of encounter can you give up your life without regret? The end of logic is not the ideal state of reason and order, but the love of dedication with life.
Shi Shen, a mathematical genius, goes to a fixed bento shop every day to buy lunch, just to see yasuko, a neighbor who works there. Yasuko, who is dependent on her daughter for her life, accidentally kills her ex-husband who comes to the door to entangle and blackmail. In order to save Yasuko, Shi Shen stepped forward to take care of the aftermath, set up an unbelievable situation with the meticulous logical thinking of a mathematician, provided Yasuko with seamless alibi evidence, and interpreted an incomparably sincere and pure love with a terrifying and inexplicable trick...
As the book review goes: At the end of reason and logic, it is the love that I give everything to.
6. "Red Finger"
What a stupid and shallow crime, but the hidden truth is shocking!
The family looked ordinary: Maehara and his wife were middle-aged, with an old mother with dementia and an underage son.
The calm was completely shattered in one afternoon: the son strangled a little girl in his home. The former couple was determined to remove the body and cover up the crime.
Maehara's confession was reasonable and impeccable, and the police could have closed the case, but when the criminal police officer Kaga saw Maehara's mother's reddened fingers, he understood the truth.
7. "After School"
"I" teach at Tsinghua Girls' High School, where some people like me and some people hate me. On the station platform, someone suddenly bumped in, and I almost fell off the tracks; I swam into the shower and almost electrocuted; a teacher was poisoned to death in my usual locker room, and he died for me? Suddenly, I understood that there seemed to be no way out.
This is Keigo Higashino's debut novel, and it is also a famous work. This book does not have his later spicy pen edge, does not have the vicissitudes of the wind and frost, but only faintly tells the story of this girl's high school. Hidden in the hazy admiration of youth, as the winner of the Edogawa Rambling Award, the degree of excitement will never disappoint you.
8. "Street of Dawn"
A classic buried in keigo Higashino's many excellent reasoning works.
When Akiba was sixteen, her parents divorced, and soon her mother committed suicide, and her father's lover died in the house. Police Awara suspect that Akiba is the murderer, but there is no conclusive evidence and has been pursued endlessly. Just as the fifteen-year statute of limitations was about to expire, Akiba met Watanabe, who had a happy family, and developed a relationship. While Watanabe is obsessed with Akiba, he has doubts about her origins. Together, we ushered in the day when the statute of limitations expired.
9. "Who Killed Her"
Worried about his depressed sister, the traffic policeman Kang is rushing to Tokyo, but he is greeted by his sister's body. The seemingly unquestionable scene of suicide was flawed in Kang Zheng's eyes. He covers up the flaws and wants the police to close the case by suicide in order to find revenge on the killer himself.
The police did indeed succeed, and the investigation was also carried out in secret, but the criminal police Kaga was full of suspicions about this. However, no matter how tightly Kaga pressed forward, Kang Zheng was already determined to make a desperate bet. The two slowly approached the truth in the contest...
This is Keigo Higashino's early work, the third in the Kaga series. The ending is open-ended, very funny, doesn't tell you exactly who the murderer is, and then the reasoning process is given to you, which tests your IQ. The plot progresses layer by layer, and finally the impact is worthy of Keigo Higashino.
10. "The Secret"
Who was she, and did he lose his wife or daughter?
"No matter who I become, I will always love you."
A traffic accident caused the destruction of his wife's body, but the soul resided in the body of her 11-year-old daughter. Since then, she has lived with her "husband", and he can no longer exist as a "father". She slowly developed innocence and fell in love with young men, which made him gradually lost in ethical taboos, sinking, and unable to extricate himself. But in the end, "she" will eventually leave, I don't know if it is as a daughter or a wife. At the moment of snuggling on the bench, he saw the ring she was wearing on her hand, and tears welled up: it turned out that she had known that this moment was coming, and in order to remember, she had always worn the testimony of love on her hand, always reminding herself not to forget.
That's the secret. Because of love, even if the body is dead, it is engraved for life.