Title: A model detective
Review: This book reminds me a lot of the great Japanese detective story by Matsumoto Seicho, Points and Lines. This is a proper detective story allowing the reader to try and solve the crime too, rather than the rather cliched detective stories one reads so often when the detective himself (normally with a stack of emotional baggage)is the focal point of the story. In this novel one can sift through the evidence with Morimoto and Suzuki and try, like them, to ascertain what has really happened. That said, the characters are nonetheless interesting as they cautiously tread their way to solving the crime. We could all learn from their methodical approach to problem solving.
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