Silent Parade

#4 Detective Galileo

Keigo Higashino

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Abacus
09 August 2022

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery; Fiction in translation

Series: Detective Galileo Series

'With its stopwatch timing, locked-room murder and perplexing abundance of alibis ... Readers are in store for plenty of surprises' Wall Street Journal

Multiple murders. Decades apart. 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. Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.

The neighbourhood 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.

Chief Inspector Kusanagi knows that once again there is only one person who can solve this string of seemingly impossible murders: his college friend, Physics professor and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo ...

By: Keigo Higashino
Imprint: Abacus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9780349145020
ISBN 10: 0349145024
Series: Detective Galileo Series
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 09 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

KEIGO HIGASHINO is a bestselling novelist in Japan and Asia, with numerous television and film adaptations of his work appearing in several languages. He is the author of The Devotion of Suspect X, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best novel, Journey Under the Midnight Sun, Salvation of a Saint, Newcomer and Malice. The Times has called him 'the Japanese Stieg Larsson'. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Reviews for Silent Parade (#4 Detective Galileo)

I set out to discover more Japanese murder mysteries. It wasn't long before I got to Keigo Higashino, and I've read nobody else since. His books are so cleverly put together. His Detective Galileo novels, in which a temperamental physics professor helps the police to solve apparently unsolvable cases, are particular smashers * Dan Rhodes, author of Sour Grapes *