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I didn‘t enjoy this one quite as much as some of the others in the series but I was nevertheless entertained. And as the narrator promised, lots of gruesome, horrible things unfolded over the course of the story. Kosuke Kindaichi is a great character and I look forward to reading more books in the series.

Started this last night and have to say, one of my favorite thing about the books in this series is that they almost always start with the narrator telling you they can‘t believe all the horrible things that they are about to tell you about…and then they proceed to tell you about all sorts of horrible murders. It‘s awesome how the narrator is always “I don‘t want to tell you about these bad things but here we go!”

Like Death on Gokumon Island, The Devil‘s Flute Murders is a slow burn, but the build-up and heightened tension really works here. What did not work for me was the revelation of the motives behind the murders—it felt really distasteful. There was also a sizeable helping of sexism that I don‘t recall being present in other books in the series. That said, will I keep reading these as they're translated? Probably.