Salvation of a Saint
A DETECTIVE GALILEO NOVEL
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3.9 • 14 Ratings
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in his empty home his beautiful wife, Ayane, immediately falls under suspicion. All clues point to Ayane being the logical suspect, but how could she have committed the crime when she was hundreds of miles away?
As Tokyo police detective Kusanagi tries to unpick a seemingly unrelated sequence of events he finds himself falling for Ayane. When his judgement becomes dangerously clouded his assistant must call on an old friend for help; it will take a genius to unravel the most spectacular web of deceit they have ever faced...
SALVATION OF A SAINT is a magnificently complex and page-turning thriller starring international crime fiction's most enigmatic sleuth.This is essential reading for all fans of exceptional crime fiction.
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.
