Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾) has died

Didn't expect to see this news today. Didn't even think he would pass away before 島田荘司, or Lawrence Block, or G. R. R. Martin, or Stephen King. I guess people just die. I read quite a lot of Higashino's mysteries 20 some years ago. The first one of his I read was his debut work 放課後 (After School, 1985). Of course, I couldn't read the Japanese original back then, I read the pirated scans of the…