# The best Keigo Higashino novels

Keigo Higashino's key works that rank high in bookstore and review rankings, from the Galileo and Kaga series to standalone classics.

- 16 votes · 18 items
- Jul 6, 2025 · hon_nara
- https://even.best/en/l/2310/the-best-keigo-higashino-novels

## Top 18

1. **Letters** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2003. A young man burdened by letters from his jailed brother.
2. **Journey Under the Midnight Sun** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1999. A dark saga following a man and a woman over 19 years.
3. **Inori no Maku ga Oriru Toki** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2013. The culmination of the Kaga series.
4. **The Devotion of Suspect X** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2005. A Galileo novel and Naoki Prize winner.
5. **Ryūsei no Kizuna** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2008. Three siblings plot revenge for their murdered parents.
6. **The Miracles of the Namiya General Store** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2012. A strange shop where letters cross through time.
7. **Newcomer** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2009. Kaga solves a case walking the streets of Nihonbashi.
8. **A Midsummer's Equation** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2011. Yukawa stumbles onto a case in a seaside town.
9. **Naoko** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1998. After an accident, a wife's mind ends up in her daughter's body.
10. **Samayou Yaiba** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2004. A father avenges his daughter on teenage killers.
11. **Masquerade Hotel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2011. A detective goes undercover as hotel staff.
12. **Shukumei** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1990. Childhood rivals meet again as detective and suspect.
13. **Mugenbana** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2013. A mystery around a legendary yellow morning glory.
14. **Tokio** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2002. A dying son travels back to meet his young father.
15. **Hakuchō to Kōmori** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2021. The children of a killer and a victim seek the truth.
16. **Hōkago** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1985. His debut, winner of the Edogawa Rampo Prize.
17. **Gen'ya** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2004. A novel seen as the companion to Journey Under the Midnight Sun.
18. **Malice** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — 1996. Detective Kaga digs into a killer's motive.

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