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After reading a few reviews, I bought the ebook and couldn't stop reading. With each chapter you get some clues about the murder, and finding out what happened to the victim before and after her death. With each chapter, I felt like there's always one person that could be the killer, up until the end I was hoping for a grand finale with all these characters being all intertwined and somehow all connected...(don't want to spoil the ending for everyone).

It was a great read for sure. Probably deserves a second read just to pick up some clues I missed in the first time around.


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Newcomer A Mystery Kyoichiro Kaga Mysteries Keigo Higashino Giles Murray 9781250067869 Books Reviews

Detective Kaga was a nice, considerate person and, at the same time, more effective than the local and less sensitive and nice policeman. However, aside from baring some of the culture in a middle-class Tokyo neighborhood there was little mystery or suspense. It was a pleasant read, but no page-turner.
Intricate and intriguing tale of murder and fraud well told with delicious attention to details. Pastry and hand made craft and watches are the disparate interests that lead Detective Kaga to the solution. Another mystery solved.
This wasn’t as convoluted a plot as I had come to expect from Higashino, but it was every bit as enjoyable as his other books. He’s one author whose books I purchase as soon as I see them. I don’t even need to read the description because I know it will be worth reading. Such good character study!
I thoroughly enjoyed the care and almost elegant simplicity that was used to tell this quite unusual detective tale. No violence just careful observation by the sensitive and persistent Detective Kaga. A real treasure. This novel brought me great feelings of relaxation as I embraced another chapter after a harried day filled with the current nonsense. Read and savor.
Imagine this a detective who digs out clues from the most obscure and tangential details—and doggedly pursues them on his own, regardless of what his superiors tell him. Is that Sherlock Holmes reincarnated in Los Angeles in the person of Harry Bosch? Nope. He's a modest detective sergeant in the Tokyo Police Department named Kyochiro Kaga—a Japanese Sherlock Holmes and Harry Bosch rolled into one.

A Japanese Harry Bosch and Sherlock Holmes
In Newcomer, the eccentric detective investigates the murder of a middle-aged divorcee. Mineko Mitsui has been strangled in the 200-square-foot apartment she calls home, and nothing about the case is obvious. Mitsui left behind her husband of two decades to pursue her dream of working as a translator. Neither her husband nor her twenty-year-old son has had any contact with her for many months. Neither even knows which neighborhood she'd recently moved into. "She's a bit of a 'mysterious newcomer,'" Kaga says. "Just like you, then," a neighbor tells the detective. (Kaga had recently been demoted from the elite Tokyo Metropolitan Police and assigned to this district.)

A feel for contemporary Japanese society
Working largely on his own, Kaga sets out to interview the proprietors and staff of the many specialized stores in Mitsui's neighborhood a traditional Japanese restaurant and shops selling china, clocks, pastry, and handicrafts. Methodically, he explores the alibis of everyone who might have had contact with the victim in the hours surrounding her death. In repeated visits at every shop, often bearing small gifts such as pastries or toys, he learns a great deal about the complicated lives of the men and women he interviews.

"They should promote you to lieutenant."
Yet we see none of this through Kaga's eyes. Throughout this skillfully written book, we meet the detective solely from the perspective of the people he encounters. We learn indirectly that Kaga is "very sharp, very eccentric, and, to top it all off, very stubborn." We see that the lines of inquiry he pursues are worthy of Sherlock Holmes.

For example, at a toy store, he buys the shop's entire stock of children's tops (the kind that spin). "Your tops have no link to the case," he reassures the shop's owner. "And the fact that they have no link is what makes them important."

In another interview, a man asks him, "What's your rank?" "Sergeant," Kaga says. "Well," the man replies, "they should promote you to lieutenant." And along the way we get a feel for contemporary Japanese society. It's easy to understand how Higashino has become so popular throughout Asia.

About the author
The name Keigo Higashino is unfamiliar to most mystery fans in the English-speaking world. But that's not the case in Asia, where Higashino has sold hundreds of millions of copies of his books. Newcomer, his most recently translated novel, is the seventh of the nine books in his series featuring Detective Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department. He has written dozens of other novels and at least fifteen collections of short stories, most of them in the mystery and suspense genre. Twenty of his books have been adapted for film or television in Japan or South Korea.
Like all Higashino, expertly plotted with great characterization. Unlike most Higashino, in this one you don't know who the murderer is up front. Definitely a change of pace in Higashino's oeuvre. More quiet, which fits the story.

I have to admit that I don't care for the Detective Galileo character; so I always look forward to Higashino's Detective Kaga books and while this one is definitely not my favorite, it is still exceptionally well done and I pretty much devoured it despite the holidays.

The beginning may seem a little slow at first as Det. Kaga works his way through the bits and pieces in the murder of a 45 year old divorcee. The early chapters almost seem like little self-contained short stories, each lead by a clue (or a non-clue) in the murder that Kaga must investigate. So we get little stories about the people working in the shops of the neighborhood and their possible connection to the murdered woman. Here, the characterizations are really wonderful (although, I do admit, I find it far fetched at times that some of the people are so brusque -- verging on rude -- to a police detective) and what Kigashino does is weave the story of a neighborhood, how everyone in some way is interconnected, breathing life into the neighborhood. Each shop Kaga visits has some connection to the murder, though which are red herrings and which are legit clues you'll have to discover on your own. In this respect, Higashino really world-builds in amazing depth.

Why I say it can be a little slow at the beginning is because, while many of these stories are charming, as a reader I started to worry that the entire novel was going to be nothing but these pastiches that almost seem to have morals to their stories or are tied up in neat little touching bows. Now, this may be in part to the translation which I found a bit heavy-handed at time. [It felt a bit like the translator needed to make sure we got the point. But that might be in Higashino's manuscript as well. As I haven't (and can't) read the Japanese original, I'll never know for sure. My gut says it is the translation, but I could be wrong.]

I should have had more faith in Higashino, because just as I started to worry about the novel becoming nothing more that interconnected short stories (and, honestly, my interest had begun to wane a bit), the author turned to the meat of the story and hooked me with great central characters, an intricate plot and a really satisfying resolution.

This really appears to be Higashino's homage to the Golden Age of mystery fiction....quiet, simple, intricate. What I ultimately liked most about this story is exactly what I found a little exasperating about it in the beginning. Higashino takes time to show use how all the people in a neighborhood are -- in some way or another -- connected or affected by what has taken place there. So, in that respect, the neighborhood becomes a really nuanced character in and of itself.

The resolution (especially what can loosely be called an epilogue) I really enjoyed. Another reviewer commented that while many Higashino fans will love this, it is likely not to be their favorite and I generally agree with that. It still damn good and a great read, well worth the time. But as for landing in my list of Higashino favorites, it doesn't quite make it.

But I'm darn ready for even more Detective Kaga.
After reading a few reviews, I bought the ebook and couldn't stop reading. With each chapter you get some clues about the murder, and finding out what happened to the victim before and after her death. With each chapter, I felt like there's always one person that could be the killer, up until the end I was hoping for a grand finale with all these characters being all intertwined and somehow all connected...(don't want to spoil the ending for everyone).

It was a great read for sure. Probably deserves a second read just to pick up some clues I missed in the first time around.