A Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino (Detective Kaga, #3) * * * * *
A Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino is the third Detective Kaga novel to be translated into English, though the series connection is loose enough that it can be read as a standalone. I read it quite a while ago, and what has stayed with me is not a tidy sequence of events, but a mood, a structure, and a very specific emotional aftertaste. First and foremost, this is a Tokyo novel. Not in a glossy, tourist sense, but in the way it moves through neighbourhoods, streets, stations, and everyday locations with quiet confidence. The city is not a backdrop; it is a constant presence. I remember repeatedly opening Google Maps while reading, tracing routes, pinning locations, mentally filing places away for a future trip. That sense of physical reality is one of the book’s strongest qualities. You feel oriented. You know where you are. The city breathes around the story. Detective Kaga himself, however, barely lingers in memory. He functions less as a vivid character and more as a conduit....