Newcomer: A Mystery

Written by Keigo Higashino

Narrated by P.J. Ochlan

"Part Sherlock Holmes, part Harry Bosch, Higashino's hero is a quietly majestic force to be reckoned with." —Kirkus, starred review

International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender—Newcomer—
as newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a baffling murder.

Detective Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but with a great deal of experience, Kaga is promptly assigned to the team investigating the murder of a woman. But the more he investigates, the greater number of potential suspects emerges. It isn’t long before it seems nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi have a motive for murder. To prevent the murderer from eluding justice, Kaga must unravel all the secrets surrounding a complicated life. Buried somewhere in the woman’s past, in her family history, and the last few days of her life is the clue that will lead to the murderer.

From the international bestseller Keigo Higashino, author of The Devotion of Suspect X, comes one of his finest works of crime fiction yet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Translator: Giles Murray
• Release date: Nov 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781250300348

Keigo Higashino

Keigo Higashino, exingeniero nacido en Osaka, es uno de los escritores de mayor éxito en Japón, cuya obra ha vendido más de cinco millones de ejemplares. Ha sido galardonado con los más prestigiosos premios de su país: el Edogawa Rampo a la mejor novela negra, el Mystery Writers of Japan, el Inc. Prize a la mejor novela negra, el Honkaku Mystery y el Naoki 2006 a la mejor novela por La devoción del sospechoso X (Ediciones B, 2011), primera de sus novelas traducida al español. En Japón, sus novelas negras han alcanzado las listas de libros más vendidos, han inspirado varias películas y series de televisión, y han sido traducidas en todo Asia. En la actualidad, Higashino vive en Tokio.

Reviews for Newcomer

[Renée Wilson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I was worried at the beginning that I wouldn't like this book. By the third chapter I was all in. Nearly every chapter is from the perspective of a person caught up in the net of a murder investigation. It was like peeling an onion. A very delicious onion. Highly recommend reading this book!

[Eva Matijevic · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Pretty good mystery, a new way of doing the “police procedural” genre. A plot actually had a perfect flow and I really can’t imagine why it couldn’t win Edgar Award.

The only minus here would be a narrator who seemed out of his depth (using a white trash voice for certain, a bit gruffy, characters was a miscalculation to say at least) but everything else in this novel is done with such a quality that I really don’t feel that this should in any way affect the overall score.