The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

I wanted to like this novel but couldn’t get excited about it. With murder mysteries, I tend to like ones where the crime is intricate, you don’t know “whodunit” or you have an endearing detective figuring out the situation.

In the Devotion of Suspect X, the crime coverup seemed unbelievable and the characters were never developed beyond the basics. It seemed more like a sketch of a mystery rather than the finished product.

Natsuo Kirino’s Out remains my favorite novel for this type of mystery.