Invisible Helix
Translated by Giles Murray
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A young man is found shot and floating in Tokyo Bay. His live-in girlfriend, a domestic abuse survivor, has vanished. Detective Galileo — the brilliant physicist Manabu Yukawa — is drawn into the case when the investigation reveals connections that spiral backward through decades: an eccentric artist who served as a surrogate mother, a hostess club owner with her own buried history, and threads of coincidence that lead, unexpectedly, to Yukawa’s own past. Higashino’s tenth Detective Galileo novel is his most personal — the invisible helix of the title is the double strand of history and chance that binds people together in ways they never chose and cannot escape. The mystery is solved, as always, through physics and logic. But the revelation underneath is not about how the crime was committed — it’s about why some wounds spiral through generations, tightening as they go.
