A Death in Tokyo, Keigo Higashino magical realism ** SUNDAY TIMES NO

** SUNDAY TIMES NO

and brimming over with clever problem-solving and heist-y fun

specialists — in short

and pursued by Hemi the half-ghost boy

confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy

A Death in Tokyo, Keigo Higashino magical realism ** SUNDAY TIMES NOIn the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo an unusual statue of a Japanese mythic beasta kirin stands guard over the district from the classic Nihonbashi bridge. In the evening, a man who appears to be very drunk staggers onto the bridge and collapses right under the statue of the winged beast. The patrolman who sees this scene unfold, goes to rouse the man, only to discover that the man was not passed out, he was dead; that he was not drunk, he was stabbed