Silent Parade

About

A popular young girl disappears; her skeletal remains are found three years later in the ashes of a burned-out house. The suspect is obvious, the circumstantial evidence compelling — but there's nothing that will hold up in court. Years later, when a second murder occurs during the town's annual parade, Detective Galileo must connect two crimes separated by decades using only the tools of physics and the patience to wait for evidence that the killer believes doesn't exist. Keigo Higashino's latest Detective Galileo mystery is built on an abundance of alibis — everyone has one, and each seems solid until examined with scientific precision. The parade setting provides both spectacle and cover, a public celebration that conceals private atrocity. A mystery where the truth hides in plain sight — and only a physicist can see it.