Another intriguing Galileo tale.

Invisible Helix (Detective Galileo ##5) by Keigo Higashino      

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The complex situation of a death that goes from at first glance relatively simple to murder, highly involved, and back to its simple root’s is teasingly intriguing.

All very laid back despite the accompanying twists. 

A body is found with a bullet in its back. A young woman has a partner she’s reported missing. Now the woman can’t be found. Chief Inspector Kusanagi and his team explore the angle of domestic abuse. 

In the mix is an older woman who’s much struck by the younger woman and as time goes on she’s convinced Sonoka Shimauchi is her granddaughter.

Is this a lie or the truth?

The story’s beginnings lay in the past decades back when a young mother places her daughter on the steps of an orphanage accompanied by a very distinctive hand made doll.

It takes Professor Manabu Yukawa (Detective Galileo) to quietly make sense of it all

So much space and time throughout the story to reflect. A pleasing pace.

The translation is spot on, no awkward syntaxes to make you shake your head.

A Minotaur Books ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.