Salvation of a Saint: A Detective Galileo Novel
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A man drops dead at home — poisoned. His wife, beautiful and composed, claims to have been at her parents' house in Hokkaido at the time. The poison had to have been administered while she was away, which should make her innocent. But Detective Galileo — physics professor Manabu Yukawa — suspects that the method of delivery is something no ordinary investigation would uncover, because it exploits a principle of chemistry that makes the impossible timeline perfectly logical. Keigo Higashino's follow-up to The Devotion of Suspect X pits his unorthodox detective against a crime that is both emotionally devastating and scientifically elegant. The solution requires not just deduction but a grasp of how the physical world works — and the patience to wait for the right experiment. A mystery where the murder weapon is a scientific principle — and where understanding how it was done only deepens the question of why.
