Silent Parade: A Detective Galileo Novel
Dec 2021 · Detective Galileo Series Book 4 · Minotaur Books
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"With its stopwatch timing, locked-room murder and perplexing abundance of alibis.... Readers are in store for plenty of surprises." —Wall Street Journal
Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in Silent Parade, a complex and challenging mystery—several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidence.
A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned out house. There’s a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn’t indicted, he returns to mock the girl’s family. And this isn’t the first time he’s been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.
The neighborhood in which the murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street festival, featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During the parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is suspiciously convenient but the people with all the best motives have rock solid alibis. DCI Kusanagi turns once again to his college friend, Physics professor and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, to help solve the string of impossible-to-prove murders.
Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in Silent Parade, a complex and challenging mystery—several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidence.
A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned out house. There’s a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn’t indicted, he returns to mock the girl’s family. And this isn’t the first time he’s been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.
The neighborhood in which the murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street festival, featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During the parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is suspiciously convenient but the people with all the best motives have rock solid alibis. DCI Kusanagi turns once again to his college friend, Physics professor and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, to help solve the string of impossible-to-prove murders.
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Janice Tangen
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December 14, 2021
Japan, law-enforcement, murder, murder-investigation, procedural, secrets, consultant, psychological, psychopath, thriller***** I'm not complaining about the free ebook, but as I only speak English fluently, I will be getting other books by this author in audio (believe me, the TTS just isn't the thing). That's not any sort of criticism of the translator! It's so interesting to read about other law enforcement agencies in the safe context of fiction. And that goes for the due diligence of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the deductive reasoning of the brilliant physicist who sometimes assists with the really tough cases. Like this one. Court systems are just as thorny in Japan and this murderer is just too smug. I can't just say that the plot is twisty, it's a diabolical double helix! Great read! Now I'm off to get an audio for book one and beyond so I can get the names right in my head. I requested and received a free ebook copy from St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books via NetGalley. Thank you!
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Riku Crane
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September 23, 2024
I don't know why, but some pages are missing / the e-book not complete
About the author
KEIGO HIGASHINO is the bestselling, best-known novelist in Japan and around Asia, with numerous television and film adaptations of his work appearing in several languages. He's the author of The Devotion of Suspect X, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best novel, and Malice. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.
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