Keigo Higashino

Keigo Higashino is a Japanese author of mystery novels. He is one of the most popular authors in his native country, akin to James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy. He began writing while working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. When he was 27, he won the Edogawa Rampo Prize (for best mystery) for his novel Hokago . He has also won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc. award for the novel Himitsu ( Naoko in English). Keigo’s novel The Devotion of Suspect X sold 800,000 copies in Japan the year it was published, making it the second highest selling book (including both fiction and non-fiction) in Japan of that year. It won the Naoki Prize for Best Novel and was adapted to film.