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Silent Parade

Detective Galileo Series (Book 4)

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An Amazon.com Editors' Picks: Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Kusanagi pointed at Yukawa with his fork. "When it comes to unraveling impossible crimes, you're the master. It's time for Detective Galileo to stand up.

A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned-out house. There's a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn't indicted, he returns to mock the girl's family. And this isn't the first time he's been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.

The neighborhood in which the murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street festival, featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During the parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is suspiciously convenient but the people with all the best motives have rock solid alibis. Chief Inspector Kusanagi turns once again to his college friend, Physics professor and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, to help solve the string of seemingly impossible murders.

Praise for Keigo Higashino
'An intriguing mashup of police procedural and golden age puzzle mystery' Guardian on Newcomer

Critics Review

I set out to discover more Japanese murder mysteries. It wasn't long before I got to Keigo Higashino, and I've read nobody else since. His books are so cleverly put together. His Detective Galileo novels, in which a temperamental physics professor helps the police to solve apparently unsolvable cases, are particular smashers
Dan Rhodes, author of Sour Grapes
Fans of golden age puzzles will wish this one could go on forever
Kirkus Reviews
Stellar...a flawless blend of police procedural and fair-play detection
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Realistic characters and beguiling descriptions...those looking for an uncommon mystery will be delighted
Library Journal (starred review)
Author Keigo Higashino
Narrator David Shih
Series Detective Galileo Series
Duration 12 hours and 32 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405552769
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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