Book Review: The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping by Keigo Higashino

'The Name of the Game is Kidnapping' is another one of Higashino's upturned-plot crime thrillers, told from the view of the criminal. All the other Higashinos I have read were about murders (including 3 unread ones in my Kindle shelf), so I decided to try this book for a change of pace.

The book is true to Higashino's form - a slow burning thriller wherein a set of regular everyday people indulge in crime. However, for the man who set the bar for crime thrillers with 'Salvation of a Saint' (arguably his best book) and 'Suspect X', 'The Name of the Game is Kidnapping' is a lukewarm read. It is in about the same class as the author's 'Malice', which again was a good but far from great read.

Strictly an airport read.