Overview
Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, and an impossible crime, are linked by nearly invisible threads in surprising ways.
The body of a young man is found floating in Tokyo Bay. But his death was no accident—Ryota Uetsuji was shot. He’d been reported missing the week before by his live-in girlfriend Sonoka Shimauchi, but when detectives from the Homicide Squad go to interview her, she is nowhere to be found. She’s taken time off from work, clothes and effects are missing from the apartment she shared. And when the detectives learn that she was the victim of domestic abuse, they presume that she was the killer. But her alibi is airtight—she was hours away in Kyoto when Ryota disappeared, forcing Detectives Kusanagi and Utsumi to restart their investigation.
But if Sonoko didn’t kill her abusive lover, then who did? A thin thread of association leads them to their old consultant, brilliant physicist Manabu Yukawa, known in the department as “Detective Galileo.” With Sonoko still missing, the detectives investigate other threads of association—an eccentric artist, who was Sonoko’s mother figure after her own single mother passed; and an older woman who is the owner of a hostess club. And how is Sonoko continuing to stay one step ahead of the police searching for her? It’s up to Galileo to find the nearly hidden threads of history and coincidence that connect the people around the bloody murder- which, surprisingly, connect to his own traumatic past—to unravel not merely the facts of the crime but the helix that ties them all together
Review
This is an intricate tale with a unique story that keeps you captive!
Sonoko broke my heart in so many ways. She has just lost her mother and now she is living with her abusive boyfriend. Luckily, one of her mother’s friends figures out what is going on and works to get Sonoko out of the situation. But that is not the only one that has her back!
I loved how this tale twisted around this family. The way this novel begins is with someone leaving a baby at an orphanage. This secret follows the characters throughout and it becomes a guessing game.
Now, since this is translated from Japanese, there were a few places where it was a bit choppy, especially in the conversations. This is minor, just something I picked up on.
Need a quick, twisted mystery…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today!
I received this novel from the publisher for a honest review.
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