![]() On the other hand, like the previous novel, this is again an inverted detective story, i.e. Now to "Salvation of a Saint." Higashino apparently wanted to do something a bit different from "The Devotion of Suspect X" so here we have three women in the main roles. ![]() But the stories are very short and offer nothing besides the puzzles (which, by the way, I would not call "honkaku" as it is not possible for the reader to solve them, if only because Higashino doesn't play fair), so they are on a very different level compared to the novels. Of course, Dr Yukawa ("Galileo") can't be missed here as Kusanagi is helpless on his own. But English readers don't miss anything, because the first two books are short story collections ("Detective Galileo" and "Foreseeing Dream" respectively a third story collection, "The Agony of Galileo" appeared at the same time as the present novel), of a rather different character than the novels: the stories concentrate on scientific puzzles as the solutions for crimes with (seemingly) supernatural overtones. The Galileo series in fact consists of nine books (so far), of which "The Devotion of Suspect X" is the third and this the fourth. ![]() ![]() Keigo Higashino followed up his million-seller The Devotion of Suspect X with "Salvation of a Saint," another mystery featuring police detective Kusanagi and scientist Dr Yukawa. ![]()
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