Silent Parade: A Detective Galileo Novel — Vol. 4

"With its stopwatch timing, locked-room murder & perplexing abundance of alibis.... Readers are in store for plenty of surprises." — Wall Street Journal

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Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in Silent Parade, a complex & challenging mystery—several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidence.

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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, to help solve the string of seemingly impossible murders.

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Born in Osaka & currently living in Tokyo, Keigo Higashino is one of the most widely known & bestselling novelists in Japan. He is the winner of the Edogawa Rampo Prize (for best mystery) & the Mystery Writers of Japan, Inc. Prize (for best mystery)…