# The Devotion of Suspect X

- Author: Keigo Higashino
- Translator: Alexander O. Smith and Elye J. Alexander
- Original title (Japanese): 容疑者Xの献身
- First published: 2005
- Publisher: Minotaur Books
- This edition: 2012
- ISBN: 9781250002693
- Shelf: Japanese Literature in Translation

## Card

A single mother's sudden trouble draws in her quiet neighbor, a math teacher, and then a physicist who helps the police.  
Clear, patient chapters move like a chess game between two careful minds, and the human cost is never far from view.  
For a night when sleep can wait.  

## About this book

Yasuko, a single mother who works at a Tokyo lunch shop, is visited one evening by her violent ex-husband, and that night changes everything. Her neighbor Ishigami, a lonely high-school math teacher, offers to help her through what follows. When a detective brings the case to his old friend Yukawa, a physicist who studied alongside Ishigami at university, a quiet contest of logic begins. What stays is a portrait of loneliness and of how far one person will go for another.

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