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Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, 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.
About the Author
(Japanese) (Traditional Chinese) (Thai) Keigo Higashino () is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan - as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA. Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. ?(presently DENSO) . He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel H?kago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo. In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel (The Secret) , which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and published by Vertical under the title of in 2004. In 2006, he won the 134th Naoki Prize for . His novels had been nominated five times before winning with this novel. was the second highest selling book in all of Japan - fiction or nonfiction - the year it was published, with over 800,000 copies sold. It won the prestigious Naoki Prize for Best Novel - the Japanese equivalent of the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize. Made into a motion picture in Japan, spent 4 weeks at the top of the box office and was the third highest?grossing film of the year. Higashino's novels have more movie and TV series adaptations than Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum, and as many as Michael Crichton.
