Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

Novels by best-selling Japanese mystery author Keigo Higashino are displayed at a bookstore in Shanghai on July 27, 2026. Higashino, whose works have gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, aged 68.

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