WARNING: THIS REVIEW WILL HAVE SOME SPOILERS SO PLEASE AVERT YOYR EYES IF HAVEN'T READ... 
 Ladies and gentlemen, I invite you all to the SECOND GREATEST MINDFUCK OF 2014! 
 I was afraid that I wouldn't like this book. I am always afraid that books are going to be boring. I was greatly surprised on how good Keigo Higashino's Malice really was. I mean, it was like ridiculously good. I sped through this book because I literally could not put it down. 
 Malice is about the murder of a famous author named Kunihiko Hidaka and the homicide detective, Kyochiro Kaga, who is on the case. One of the suspects, Hidaka's friend Osamu Nonoguchi and a Children's author, used to know Kaga back when they were Elementary school teachers together. 
 Osamu's airtight alibi for Hidaka's murder springs a leak. It's looking quite clear that he did it but why? Kaga's going to have to sift through all of the lies and half-truths to discover Osamu's motive. 
 I bow down in reverence to Keigo Higashino because Malice was a damn good novel. I'm not ever sure I can adequately put into words the sheer unique awesomeness of it. Higashino creates an intricate and exciting puzzle but only gives you the pieces little by little. Also, he colors your perception of events and people with Osamu's accounts. 
 Osamu was the ultimate unreliable narrator. In Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, once the deception is revealed, the truth is pretty forthcoming. In Malice, once one deception is revealed, another takes its place masquerading as the truth until that deception is revealed and the whole process begins again. Detective Kaga was a great character and served as a universal translator/Rosetta Stone to Osamu's treachery. The last part is absolutely brilliant. 
 Higashino did an absolutely outstanding job illustrating just how detrimental and destructive an emotion malice can be. Sometimes, it's not just enough to kill someone but to fundamentally destroy them. I will buy this book once it comes out in paperback.