{"id":563053,"date":"2026-07-28T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563053\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:28:12","slug":"japanese-author-keigo-higashino-known-for-penning-intricate-mystery-novels-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563053\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese author Keigo Higashino, known for penning intricate mystery novels, dies at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese author Keigo Higashino, a prolific writer best known for his numerous hit mystery novels and lauded for his intricate plotting and creativity, has died, his official X account announced Monday. He was 68.<\/p>\n<p>Higashino died from colorectal cancer early Thursday, the account said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hereby respectfully express our condolences and inform you of this,\u201d a statement said. His funeral was held privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese author Keigo Higashino, a prolific writer best known for his numerous hit mystery novels and lauded for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1096,412,146,85,46,255133,5365,74543],"class_list":["post-563053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-awards","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-keigo-higashino","tag-obituary","tag-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}