Article: The Final Curtain (2023)

Billed it as the concluding chapter of the Detective Kaga series, only a fraction of which have been translated into English, Keigo Higashino’s The Final Curtain ("Inori no Maku ga Oriru Toki'' in Japan) is one of those titles with dual meanings alluding to both the book’s content and its central protagonist suggesting finality. It arrives just a year after his last literary adventure, A Death in Tokyo, an otherwise rote entry in Higashino’s oeuvre that suggested the author was beginning to tire of his Newcomer.