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A Death in Tokyo

Kyoichiro Kaga, Book 3

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A Death in Tokyo

By: Keigo Higashino
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
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The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino.

On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man, who he presumes to be drunk - only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest. He is dead.

Meanwhile, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.

But is he actually responsible for the crime? What is his connection to the victim? And why did the dying man drag himself from the crime scene to the Nihonbashi Bridge? Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga must piece together the answers to all of these questions in order to find the killer, but each answer he finds seems to throw up more questions...

Taking us deep into the heart of Tokyo, and reintroducing the charming and ingenious Detective Kyoichiro Kaga, A Death in Tokyo is another mind-bending and hugely satisfying murder mystery from the modern master of classic crime.

©2022 Keigo Higashino (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK Crime Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Fiction Detective Suspense

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Great story with interesting insights into Japanese culture. Narrator was oddly robotic but that was actually fine.

Fascinating plotting

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I got into Japanese fiction as a result of reading Bullet Train, and came across this title. I was not disappointed. The same slightly disorientating feeling of immersing yourself in a culture simultaneously unfamiliar and shared was there. You have the same enjoyable effort of trying to remember and distinguish non -Western names of people and places, and the pleasurable work of calculating how features of such a different culture play into solving the problem.
The author is a master of tight, believable plotting. He keeps you guessing right up to the end.
The novel concerns an apparently straightforward crime in the heart of Tokyo and detectives unwilling to settle for the obvious answer. The central characters are realistic: neither all good nor all bad, and changed by a tragedy that threw the trajectory of their lives off course. A wonderful book. I immediately bought another by this author.

First and definitely not last

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I like this author’s books and this one didn’t disappoint. I wish it was narrated by someone else, though. This narrator interpretation of the characters wasn’t all bad but the interpretation of the narrator’s voice was too robotic and jarring for me and it didn’t let me lose myself in the book. Had it not been this particular author, I’d have given up listening.

Good story but annoying narration

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PJ Ochlan was at a disadvantage, because the previous incarnation of Kaga was so different! Even given a difference in age and experience, the casting director and director probably should have been more attentive. It was a little distracting, as I kept hearing the previous voice in my head, which was so different. I think, to give Ochlan credit though, he got Kaga's personality right and gave imbued him with more life. But his own Americanisms/accent did colour all of his performance - from his narration right through each character.
The story was engaging, by I felt the same as Yuuto, that his father was innocent of the workplace cover up. As a red herring, it was a pretty low blow to leave it ignored and unsolved like that. Wouldn't Kaga's personality have led him to solve that too? In fact I thought that was the root of the mystery, why, IF he had MAYBE met with the unfortunate young man, they were going to work together to blow the whole thing wide open. Oh well, it was a dissatisfying loose end which Higashino had time to tie up and didn't.

Engaging story, but

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I'm a big fan of Keigo Higashino but this audiobook is too painful to listen to. I noticed that the narrator is different from his other audiobooks but I was willing to give it a go even though I think his voice is unsuitable for this book but when on top of the monotone voice he started pronouncing name of places incorrectly I just couldn't continue, it is too distracting. There are not that many Japanese words in translated books other than name of places and characters but somehow they managed not to Google how to pronounce them and keep saying Nihonbosh.

Needs to be re-recorded with a different narrator

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