![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, there was a deep dependency and hatred between the two men, and the desperation of an aspiring author to get into print plays its devastating part in the story. In a conversation with his sister, Nonoguchi argues in Hidaka’s favour and is asked whether he is so eager to defend him because he himself is a writer, taking us to the core of the relationship between the two men, though apparently there was little connection. The randomness of malice is more terrifying than the identifiable causes of envy or jealousy. ![]() His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. The detective’s examination of these youthful relationships forms an absorbing study of school bullying, concluding that there may be no real reason for a group to choose a victim, no particular grounds – it is just the “Malice” of the title at work, sometimes persisting into adult life. Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. Mysteries are gathering quickly, and Hidaka’s novels include one pillorying an old school friend as a schoolboy guilty of rape, a disastrous depiction of a highly sensitive young man who became an artist. ![]()
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