A thrilling and satisfying new mystery featuring Keigo Higashino's enduringly popular Detective
Galileo first introduced in The Devotion of Suspect X 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 it's up to Galileo to find the nearly hidden threads of history and coincidence
that connect the people around the bloody murder - and even more surprisingly reach back into
his own traumatic past. Only then can he unravel not only the facts of the crime but the helix
that ties all of them together.
