Flower of Dreams-Keigo Higashino

The yellow sunset glow has long been extinct because of its special color. But all of a sudden, many things have changed because of this flower.

This book is developed from the perspective of former Olympic swimmer Yamanashi Aki. First her cousin Shang committed suicide by jumping off a building, and then she found the body of her grandfather Zhou at home. In a short time, two relatives left her, which made her feel very painful. At the same time, she found that the unknown yellow potted plant in grandpa's house was missing, and she was intuitively related to grandpa's death. Naoki Asase, a policeman handling the case, caught the murderer this morning because Zhou Zhi had proved his son's innocence and wanted to satisfy the child's wishes. Pusheng Yaojie, an office employee of the Metropolitan Police Department, came across a yellow flower photo posted by Li Nai on his blog and contacted Li Nai actively, asking her to stop the investigation of Zhou Zhi's death. Pear, full of curiosity in her heart, and her younger brother Cang Tai joined hands to trace Yao Jie's purpose and the origin of the yellow flower. Li Nai's cousin Ren Shang and his classmates formed a band. The lead singer of the band is Dashan Yaya, and the band members are one of them. Because of Ren Shang's unexpected death, the band recruited a new keyboard player. Unexpectedly, after a concert, Mrs. Cang was surprised to find that this keyboard player looks very much like Xiao Yiting May, a girl I met in the morning glory market when I was a child. Mrs. Cang and Li Nai were curious about the purpose of Xiao Mei joining the band under a pseudonym, so they added another respondent. Soon they found Kudo, who introduced Xiao Mei to the band, and found that Xiao Mei planned to join the band in order to get close to these talented people. It was not until Yao Jie explained the truth to them that Yao Jie's grandfather had investigated the "MM" incident. The main cause of this incident is that the yellow morning glory has magical effects, and people who eat its seeds will have hallucinations. At that time, Kazuo Tanaka took yellow morning glory seeds because of Marilyn Monroe's sudden death, which caused a series of crazy and irreparable injuries. At that time, Mrs. Cang's mother, Zhimozi's parents, were at the scene, and both of them were stabbed to death. In order to prevent the spread of the situation, the government called in the grandfather who was preserving and studying these seeds at that time, but he didn't know why the seeds were scattered outside, so the yellow morning glory became a forbidden area for plant research. But at that time, Tanaka's parents' country house was bought by Kudo, so Gao Jian approached Kudo, hoping to know if Kudo had any remaining seeds. As a result, Kudo had this seed in his hand, and he also gave it to the monk Yaya. In this way, the two of them created their famous work-Hypnosis and Temptation. It was not until the businessmen had hallucinations after eating melon seeds and committed suicide by jumping off a building that this incident surfaced. Previously, they asked botanist Zhou Zhi to help plant this seed. Later, when Ya Ya knew that Zhou Zhi had found flowers, she killed Zhou Zhi impulsively.

How can I put it? This is the second mystery novel by Keigo Higashino that I have read. Compared with the first book, The Dedication of Suspect X, this book lacks some event structure and reasoning skills. The story creates a long-time story background, which can be traced back to the story of the grandparents of the main characters in the book. A family and a pusheng family are two families entrusted with important tasks. One was born in a famous family, and the other was a medical family, who was responsible for part of the "MM" incident that year-one caught the truth and the other caught the seeds. In this way, it continued to the third generation of their respective families. Filial piety and Mrs. Cang met in the morning glory market, but before the dark feelings could be realized, Filial piety knew the truth of that year and chose to break up with Mrs. Cang because of guilt until the case happened and let them meet again. As far as this case is concerned, Ya Ya is undoubtedly afraid that what she created by hallucinogens will be exposed, so she killed Zhou Zhi, which reflects the vanity and inner inferiority of this character. Compared with the dedication of suspect X, in this case, if you can't see the end, you can't guess who the murderer is, because there is no clue between the lines. You can only realize that someone visited Zhou Zhi at that time and learned that the tea was for someone else. Maybe two people came, but you can't imagine who came and who took the potted plant. You can only wait for the man in the book to reveal all the reasoning elements, because he has seen far more than you. However, this may be the charm of mystery novels. When those looming clues are strung together, you will suddenly find that some you have noticed and some you have not, and you will be impressed by their meticulous reasoning and thinking.

Everyone has their own people to protect, some people may be for the people they love, some people may be for themselves, but no matter what, they will pay a great price for it.

There may be some logical inversion in narrative, but I can't grasp the multi-linear narrative well (scratching my head). Thank you for seeing this. )