The final curtain

Title:

The final curtain

Uniform Title:

Inori no maku ga oriru toki. English

Author:

Higashino, Keigo, 1958, author.

Added Author:

Murray, Giles,

Personal Author:

Higashino, Keigo, 1958, author.

ISBN:

9781250767523

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Physical Description:

390 pages ; 22 cm

Series:

Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries

Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries.

Abstract:

"A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone in an apartment far away, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions. Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to death, left in the bare apartment rented under a false name by a man who has disappeared without a trace. Oshitani lived far away in Sendai, with no known connection to Tokyo--and neither her family nor friends have any idea why she would have gone there. Hers is the second strangulation death in that approximate area of Tokyo--the other was a homeless man, killed and his body burned in a tent by the river. As the police search through Oshitani's past for any clue that might shed some light, one of the detectives reaches out to Detective Kaga for advice. As the case unfolds, an unexpected connective emerges between the murder (or murders) now and the long-ago case of Detective Kaga's missing mother"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.

Mothers and sons -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Summary:

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Summary

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer , a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother.

A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone in an apartment far away, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions.

Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to death, left in the bare apartment rented under a false name by a man who has disappeared without a trace. Oshitani lived far away in Sendai, with no known connection to Tokyo - and neither her family nor friends have any idea why she would have gone there.

Hers is the second strangulation death in that approximate area of Tokyo - the other was a homeless man, killed and his body burned in a tent by the river. As the police search through Oshitani's past for any clue that might shed some light, one of the detectives reaches out to Detective Kaga for advice. As the case unfolds, an unexpected connective emerges between the murder (or murders) now and the long-ago case of Detective Kaga's missing mother.

The Final Curtain , one of Keigo Higashino's most acclaimed mysteries, brings the story of Detective Kaga to a surprising conclusion in a series of rich, surprising twists.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

A summons to Tokyo leads Det. Kyoichiro Kaga of the Nihonbashi Precinct to some places that are unnervingly dark and close to home. When Michiko Oshitani, a cleaning salesperson for Melody Air, is found dead long after she's been strangled in Mutsuo Koshikawa's apartment, Tokyo Det. Shuhei Matsumiya and his colleagues would love to talk to Koshikawa. But no one has seen him since the weekend of the murder. The case seems open and shut, but the discovery soon after of the body of a homeless man strangled on the Shinkoiwa riverbank suggests that a single killer may be responsible for both deaths, and the evidence doesn't support the theory that Koshikawa is the killer. Calling on his cousin Kaga for help, Matsumiya works with him to brainstorm theories and gather evidence, only to end up tossing out one theory after another. A particularly vexing clue is a list of 12 Tokyo bridges linked to specific months of the calendar that Kaga himself has a copy of, though he doesn't know what it means. There are strong indications that both murders are somehow connected to actress/playwright/director Hiromi Kadokura, Michiko's classmate in junior high school (when she was Hiromi Asai); to Seizo Naemura, the homeroom teacher the girls shared; and to Kaga's own troubled family history. Stunned by the fact that he knew both the first victim and the missing suspect, Kaga can't believe that's a coincidence. Only the most painstaking detective work will establish the motive behind the murders, rooted in a well-nigh endless series of masquerades by more characters than one. An intricate, many-layered puzzle created by a killer whose identity is its least surprising feature. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.