Salvation of a Saint
A Detective Galileo Novel
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4.3 • 64 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring "Detective Galileo"
In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as "stunning," "brilliant," and "ingenious." Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa—Detective Galileo—returns in a new case of impossible murder, where instincts clash with facts and theory with reality.
Yoshitaka, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect—except that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi's instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter. So she does what her boss has done for years when stymied—she calls upon Professor Manabu Yukawa.
But even the brilliant mind of Dr. Yukawa has trouble with this one, and he must somehow find a way to solve an impossible murder and capture a very real, very deadly murderer.
Salvation of a Saint is Keigo Higashino at his mind-bending best, pitting emotion against fact in a beautifully plotted crime novel filled with twists and reverses that will astonish and surprise even the most attentive and jaded of readers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Howdunit, rather than whodunit, appears to be the central question of Edgar-finalist Higashino's brilliant second mystery featuring Tokyo police detective Manabu Yukawa (after 2011's The Devotion of Suspect X). After Yoshitaka Mashiba tells his wife, Ayane, that their short marriage is over because she hasn't become pregnant, Ayane thinks about "the white powder hidden in a sealed plastic bag" and decides that her husband has to die, adding a cryptic "too." When Ayane leaves town to tend to an ailing parent, her prot g , who's also her husband's mistress, stops by to find Mashiba dead of what turns out to be arsenic poisoning. How did the poison enter the victim's system at a time when the obvious suspect, the scorned wife, was away? While readers of classic mysteries will be delighted with the elegant solution, the book will also appeal to fans of procedurals that carefully develop the relationships among the investigative team members.
Customer Reviews
Diabolically clever
This novel is a "how-done-it," rather than a "who-done-it" that I enjoyed even more than the first novel in the series, "Devotion of Suspect X." I'm getting into the characters now and enjoyed the addition of a female detective. Looking forward to what's next for this odd team!