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Detective Galileo, international bestselling author Keigo Higashino's most beloved creation, returns in the next thrilling installment, A Midsummer's Equation. Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hariguara, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen...

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 20 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.

On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man, who he presumes to be drunk - only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest. He is dead. Meanwhile, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.

“From exactly midnight until daybreak, the Namiya General Store advice box will be reopening for one night only.” When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store’s...

Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime.

From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the next novel featuring "Detective Galileo." The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling...

The critically acclaimed international bestselling novel by one of Japan's premier storytellers, Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X marks the first book in his beloved Detective Galileo mysteries. "One of the great mystery and thriller books of all time!" (Time) Yasuko Hanaoka is a...

A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered questions. Now in Tokyo, Michiko Oshitani is found dead many miles from home. Strangled to death, left in the bare apartment rented under a false name by a man who has disappeared without a trace. Oshitani lived far away in Sendai, with no known connection to Tokyo—and neither her family nor friends have any idea why she would have gone there.

Malice is one of the bestselling—and acclaimed—novels in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular fictional creations in Asia. Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's...

A New York Times Editor's Choice "Part Sherlock Holmes, part Harry Bosch, Higashino's hero is a quietly majestic force to be reckoned with." —Kirkus, starred review International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender—Newcomer—as newly transferred Tokyo Police...

Homicide Detective Godai of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is assigned to investigate the death of a lawyer, Kensuke Shiraishi, whose body was found on a Central Tokyo riverbank. His investigations leads him to one Tatsuro Kuraki, who claims to have had limited contact with...

KYOICHIRO KAGA — TIDLIGERE LÆRER, NU KRIMINALASSISTENT Der er ingen tegn på indbrud eller andet påfaldende, da Osamu Nonoguchi finder sin gode ven, bestsellerforfatteren Kunihiko Hidaka, myrdet i sit hjem.  Kriminalassistent Kagas logiske sans bliver udfordret, for både Hidakas kone og...

Dopo il suicidio del cugino, Lino cerca rifugio nel giardino del nonno, tra coltivazioni di fiori rari e profumi familiari. Affascinata dal suo mondo, gli propone di creare un blog per raccontarlo. Il nonno accetta, ma con un'unica condizione: non pubblicare nulla su un certo fiore giallo che Lino ha notato in casa sua. Pochi giorni dopo, lui è morto. E il fiore è sparito. Spinta da un'ossessione crescente, Lino infrange la promessa e pubblica una foto del fiore.

When a body is found in a hot-spring town, dead from hydrogen sulfide poisoning, geochemist Shusuke Aoe is brought in to aid the investigation. The death is written off as an accident, but something doesn’t add up, and at the scene, Shusuke comes across a young woman searching for her missing...

IKKE ALLE GÅDER KAN LØSES AF VIDENSKABEN Liget af en mand findes på klipperne ved kysten tæt på den fallerede turistby Hari-ga-Ura.  Tilfældet vil, at professor Yukawa bor på samme pensionat, som den afdøde boede på. Og tilfældet vil, at drabsefterforsker Kusanagi involveres i...

Da en mand findes død af forgiftning i sit hjem, ligger det ligefor at mistænke hans kone, Ayane, som har indtil flere motiver. Problemet er bare, at Ayane på drabstidspunktet var hundredvis af kilometer borte og har et vandtæt alibi.  Drabsefterforsker Kusanagi bliver så betaget af...

Da den enlige mor Yasuko i selvforsvar dræber sin voldelige eksmand i et af Tokyos utallige lejlighedskomplekser, tilbyder hendes gådefulde nabo, en stille matematiklærer ved navn Ishigami, at fabrikere et alibi til hende. I desperation og uden at kunne overskue konsekvenserne accepterer hun...

Quando se escondem numa loja abandonada após cometer pequenos delitos, três jovens ladrões são surpreendidos ao ver uma carta entrando por uma fresta na porta da frente, embora não haja ninguém do lado de fora. A carta, datada de décadas atrás, contém um singelo pedido de ajuda que dará início a uma jornada inesperada de reflexão e autodescoberta.

IL CAPOLAVORO DI UNO DEI MAGGIORI AUTORI DEL SOL LEVANTE, UN BESTSELLER DEFINITO IL DELITTO E CASTIGO GIAPPONESE. Il corpo di un avvocato noto in città viene trovato morto in una macchina. Sembra semplice per la polizia locale trovare il colpevole, visto che in poco tempo un uomo viene interrogato e poi indotto a confessare l'omicidio. Purtroppo, però, c'è una certa differenza tra l'arrestare qualcuno e il fare giustizia. E questa differenza è la molla che spinge i due protagonisti di questo romanzo a perseguire un'indagine che per le autorità competenti è già chiusa.

Es ist kurz vor Mitternacht, als drei junge Einbrecher in einen verlassenen Gemischtwarenladen eindringen, um nach ihrem Raubzug unterzutauchen. Doch Atsuya, Shota und Kohei wird keine ruhige Stunde bis zum Morgengrauen gewährt: Ein Brief wird von außen durch einen Schlitz in den Laden geworfen, obwohl in der Dunkelheit vor der Tür kein Mensch zu sehen ist.