First thoughts

TKEIGO HIGASHINO is an award-winning Japanese author and his 2006 novel, The Devotion Of Suspect X, which gripped two million readers in Japan alone and has been made into a film, has finally hit our shores.

The drama starts with single mother and divorcee Yakuso Hanaoka, who kills her violent ex-husband Togashi (with help from her young daughter Misato) after suffering years of abuse.