Keigo Higashino is stated to be one of Japan's best-selling authors. He is known for hisDetective Galileo mystery series.
I like police procedurals like the books by Michael Connolly. This one is a police procedural in Japanese style, whiuch is the reason why I picked this book.
I never got the relationship of the name of the book to the story. There is one reference to a DNA analysis to establish relationship but not at all crucial to the story and certainly not enough to warrant the title or the cover of the book. It's almost as if the cover is from a different book. Anyway, the most I can say is that the story is not boring. After the case is closed the author spends about 30-40 pages explaining the details of how things unfolded while we already know what has happened. It really seems unnecessary.
I am not going to search for another book by this author.
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