The Devotion of Suspect X

For those that killed many an enthralled hour devouring the novels written by Steig Larsson (about the staunch Lisbeth Salander & journalist Michael Blomkvis) here is another author to check out:  Keigo Higashino.

Keigo Higashino is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan - as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.

This year, his bestselling novel “The Devotion of Suspect X” was translated into English for the US market.

Here is an excerpt from a customer review on the Amazon Vine™ Program

"…The Devotion of Suspect X is the first debut in English of a masterful Japanese novelist named Keigo Higashino. In Japan, he won the Japanese equivalent of America's National Book Award for this book. Having just finished it, I completely agree with the award. The publishers are calling it a literary thriller on the advanced reader version. And it is, but that phrase has been used to describe many books before that did not have this level of writing skill on display…”

More information: http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2011/02/11/is-this-guy-the-next-steig-larsson/