Invisible Helix
A Detective Galileo Novel
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
Descripción editorial
Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, and 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.
But if Sonoko didn't kill her abusive lover, then who did? A thin thread of association leads them to their old consultant, brilliant physicist Manabu Yukawa, known in the department as "Detective Galileo." With Sonoko still missing, the detectives investigate other threads of association—an eccentric artist, who was Sonoko's mother figure after her own single mother passed; and an older woman who is the owner of a hostess club. And how is Sonoko continuing to stay one step ahead of the police searching for her? It's up to Galileo to find the nearly hidden threads of history and coincidence that connect the people around the bloody murder- which, surprisingly, connect to his own traumatic past—to unravel not merely the facts of the crime but the helix that ties them all together.
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Higashino's disappointing fifth whodunit featuring Manabu Yukawa (after Silent Parade) finds the physics professor helping the Tokyo police investigate the murder of a young video producer. After Ryota Uetsuji is found floating in Tokyo Bay with a bullet in his back, Chief Inspector Kusanagi—who was friends with Yukawa in college—takes the case. He soon learns that Uetsuji was the live-in boyfriend of florist Sonoka Shimauchi, who vanished after Uetsuji died. When the couple's neighbors report that Uetsuji abused Sonoka, she becomes the prime suspect. Then Kusanagi learns that Sonoka was friendly with children's author Nae Matsunaga, one of whose books references Yukawa's work. That connection leads Kusanagi to enlist Yukawa's help in tracking Sonoka down, believing she may have gone on the run with Matsunaga. Despite the strong setup, Higashino chooses the predictable path at every turn, leaving series fans waiting in vain for a twist worthy of Yukawa's brilliance. Here's hoping the professor's next outing is a return to form.
