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.

And those two were in my first class after I started teaching at that school. You don’t forget your first lot of pupils.

You didn’t care about committing the perfect crime. You wanted to establish the perfect motive.

is an unfortunate fact that the police tend to turn a stern eye towards evidence that benefits a suspect, but tend to be rather easygoing when it comes to evidence that implicates our suspect.

That’s when I came across the concept of establishing character. Apparently, it won’t do just to tell the reader what a particular character is like. The author needs to show their habits or their words and let the reader form an image on their own.