He kills a neighbor's cat by feeding them poisoned food, and shamelessly uses and blackmails his friend who trusted him, plagiarizing his work for his own profit, and his wife committed suicide due to his horrible treatment of her and Nonoguchi. Asshole Victim: Hidaka, the murder victim in the novel, is portrayed as an incredibly unpleasant and nasty person.This work contains examples of the following: The novel begins with Nonoguchi as the viewpoint character, but during the next chapter when the viewpoint switches to Kaga, it becomes apparent that Nonoguchi's account may not be entirely honest. When Osamu arrives, he and Hidaka's wife Rie find Hidaka dead inside his office.Īs it turns out, Kyoichiro Kaga is assigned to the case, and he and Nonoguchi are acquainted since both taught at the same school.
Sometime after Osamu leaves, he receives a phone call from Hidaka asking him to come back to his house because he has something important to ask him. The novel begins with a written account by Osamu Nonoguchi (which actually exists in-universe), a writer of children's books, as he recounts the day he visited his best friend and famous author, Kunihiko Hidaka, who is about to move to Vancouver the following day. It is part of a series of books by Higashino starring the detective Kyoichiro Kaga. Malice is a mystery novel written by famous Japanese author Keigo Higashino and published in 2014.
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