'The Japanese Stieg Larsson' The Title The Detective Galileo, the most beloved figure of Keigo Higashino from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history and impossible crime are linked with almost invisible treasures in unexpected ways. The body of a young man is discovered floating in Tokyo Bay. However, his death was not an accident - Ryota Uetsuji was shot. He had been reported missing the week before by his girlfriend, Sonoka Shimauchi, but when the Police detectives find Sonoka, she is nowhere to be found. She has taken leave from her work and clothes and items are missing from the apartment they shared. And when the detectives discover that she was a victim of abuse, they assume she is the murderer. However, her alibi is airtight - she was hours away in Kyoto when Ryota disappeared, forcing detectives Kusanagi and Utsumi to restart their investigation. But if Sonoka didn't kill her abuser, then who did? A subtle link leads them to their old advisor, the brilliant physicist Manabu Yukawa, known in the service as "Detective Galileo." With Sonoka still missing, the detectives investigate other connections - an estranged artist, who was a mother figure to Sonoka after her own mother's death, and an older woman who is the owner of a club. And how does Sonoka manage to always stay one step ahead of the police searching for her? It is up to Galileo to find the nearly hidden ties of history and fate that connect the people around the bloody crime - which, paradoxically, also connect with his own traumatic past - to solve not only the facts of the crime but also the helix that binds them all.

Pages: 288, Year of Publication: 0128, Dimensions: 15.2x15.2cm