A Death in Tokyo

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A corporate executive is found dead beneath the winged kirin statue on Tokyo’s historic Nihonbashi Bridge, stabbed in the chest. He wasn’t killed there — he was stabbed elsewhere and dragged himself to this exact spot before dying. That night, a young man from the same company is hit by a truck while fleeing police, the victim’s wallet in his possession. Inspector Kyoichiro Kaga, a former schoolteacher turned detective, is drawn not to the obvious suspect but to the question no one else is asking: why did a dying man use his last strength to reach a statue? Higashino is the rare mystery writer whose puzzles are ultimately about human motivation rather than forensic procedure. The solution, when it comes, is less about who than about why — and the “why” will stay with you.