Guilt: by the million-copy bestselling author of The Devotion of Suspect X
From Keigo Higashino, the bestselling author of The Devotion of Suspect X, comes a crime novel that does something quietly remarkable: it takes a seemingly closed case and pulls at every loose thread until the whole thing unravels into something far stranger and more unsettling. When a body turns up on a Central Tokyo riverbank, Homicide Detective Godai is handed what initially looks like a straightforward investigation. The victim is a lawyer named Kensuke Shiraishi. Suspicion falls on a man called Tatsuro Kuraki, who then confesses, and not just to this killing. He also admits to a second murder committed thirty years prior, a case that had already been considered resolved after another man's arrest and death in custody before trial. Two cases, one confession. Tidy. Conclusive. Done. Except Godai doesn't buy a word of it. He's not alone in his doubts. Kuraki's own son refuses to accept his father's version of events, and Shiraishi's daughter is equally unconvinced. As all three inch towards the buried truth, the connections between the two murders grow murkier, thornier, and far more morally complicated than anyone had bargained for. Highashino is particularly good at this: constructing plots that feel like logical puzzles on the surface while harbouring genuine emotional weight underneath. Guilt is less about whodunit and more about why, and what we owe to the truth when finding it might cost more than leaving it buried. The line between innocence and culpability, it turns out, is a very blurry thing.
- Author: Keigo Higashino
- Publisher: Abacus
- Genre: Science Fiction
- ISBN: 978-0349148618
- Pages: 416 pages