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I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.

Currently reading

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Vol. 1
Dojyomaru, Fuyuyuki, Sean McCann
Progress: 103/374 pages
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Progress: 424/470 minutes
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Progress: 184/184 pages
Parental Guidance
Avery Flynn
Progress: 40 %
An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn
Progress: 102/358 pages
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
Progress: 385/385 pages
Educated
Tara Westover
Progress: 315/730 minutes
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Vol. 2
Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka
Progress: 24/171 pages
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
MK Czerwiec, Kimberly R. Myers, Scott T. Smith, Michael J. Green, Susan Merrill Squier, Ian Williams
Progress: 26/172 pages
Ao Oni: Mutation
Kenji Kuroda, Karin Suzuragi, Alexander Keller-Nelson
Progress: 30/152 pages

Reading progress update: I've read 316 out of 316 pages.

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders - Ross MacKenzie, Soji Shimada, Shika MacKenzie

[ETA - I figured I'd add this: absolutely don't click my spoiler tag unless you don't plan to read this. I don't actually give away who did it, but there are spoilers in my wording.]

 

Finished! I can now say that, no matter how long I sat down and thought about the clues, I'd never have figured everything out. As it was, I managed to correctly guess 1.5 things, sort of:

that the Kazue the police officer met was not the real Kazue (that one was pretty obvious, even though I couldn't figure out the reason for it) and that the murderer was one of the murdered young women.

 

I didn't pick the right young woman or figure out any of the other key points of the murder, and I thought she'd actually been killed along with the other five women. My best theory was that Tomoko and Heitaro worked together to commit the murders, and then Heitaro betrayed Tomoko and killed her, leaving the body where he was because, I don't know, after burying five other people with Tomoko's help, he was too tired to bury her on his own or something. A theory which had lots of holes and didn't account for the problem of the almost certainly fake Kazue the police officer met. Unless his letter was a fabrication, but then why mention that the Kazue he met didn't quite look like the photo of Kazue in the newspaper? See, problems.

(show spoiler)

 

The actual explanation made sense, although it relied a lot on luck and the police either missing key details or being unable to get key information. And dang did the killer have to be ice cold.

 

I wish the second book in the series, The Locked Room of Pythagoras, were available in English.

 

Oh, and I'm going to be counting this for my Locked Room Mystery square. I haven't done a Bingo update in ages - I need to do that when I get home.