Malice is the masterpiece of Japanese writer Keigo Higashino who challenges the limit of mystery novel creation. This is the fourth in Kaga Kyouichirou's series. Who killed her in the last work of this series, and I killed him in the next work.

Keigo Higashino was born on February 4th, 1958 in Osaka, Japan. He is a writer in japanese mystery and graduated from osaka prefecture university with a major in electrical engineering. Later, he worked as a production technical engineer in Denso Corporation, an auto parts supplier. His representative works include After School, Secret and Night Walk.