![]() ![]() ![]() Togashi is dead.įrightened, Yasuko starts toward the phone to call the police and confess her crime when there’s a knock on her door. Desperate to protect herself and her daughter, Yasuko grabs the cord that heats the kotatsu table (it’s a heated table, apparently very common in Japan) and strangles him from behind. The daughter then tries to come to her mother’s rescue and, even more angry, Togashi starts punching both of them. Infuriated, he begins hitting her, and Yasuko tries to pull him away. Having gone through this routine with him before, Yasuko refuses to discuss it and gives him money, not for the first time, to get him to leave.īefore he goes he tries to talk to his teenage stepdaughter, but she wants nothing to do with him. When Yasuko Hanaoka’s former husband, Shinji Togashi, finds her and her daughter, he says he wants to reconcile with them. But within a few pages it changes direction. ![]() ![]() The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino starts off with this premise. Nevertheless, she continues to take steps to distance herself from him, changing her job and moving to a different apartment. A woman, divorced from an emotionally and physically abusive husband, believes that she and her daughter are free of him. It’s a familiar beginning to a crime story. ![]()
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