Keigo Higashino is the author of more than fifty novels who has been popular in Japan for twenty years. Now every new work of his becomes an event. In his homeland, he has been awarded all the major literary awards and prizes, and his novels have been the basis for dozens of film and film adaptations, splashing out on the screens the gloomy atmosphere of his detective stories. The novel “Victim of Suspect X” became the author’s first major success. In 2006, it won the Naoki Prize for Best Novel, as well as a host of Japanese and foreign awards. In 2008, its first film adaptation took place. This time, the case with which investigator Kusanagi came to Professor Yukawa does not seem particularly unusual: a domestic murder, and there is a suspect. But every time the investigator and his friend seemed to have come to an understanding of the situation, something didn’t add up. Gradually, the investigation takes on the features of an intellectual confrontation and leads the participants to an unexpected outcome.