Malice (The Detective Kaga Series)

by Keigo Higashino

‘Parents these days don’t read books themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren’t readers, however, they have no idea what to give their children.

‘Apparently he felt that as long as the intent was not an exposé, but the attainment of art, that some intrusion on his subjects’ privacy was unavoidable.’

‘Everyone has secrets. And everyone has the right to keep them. Even if they’re dead.’

it was difficult when times were hard to pretend to be happy, doing the reverse was relatively simple.

But doubt had crept in around the edges of my assurance.