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The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino

On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast a kirin One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man who he presumes to be drunk only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest He is dead

Meanwhile a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the police Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man

But is he actually responsible for the crime What is his connection to the victim And why did the dying man drag himself from the crime scene to the Nihonbashi Bridge Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga must piece together the answers to all of these questions in order to find the killer but each answer he finds seems to throw up more questions

Taking us deep into the heart of Tokyo and reintroducing the charming and ingenious Detective Kyoichiro Kaga A Death in Tokyo is another mindbending and hugely satisfying murder mystery from the modern master of classic crime