num_pages: 330
description: In 2011 The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan it was acclaimed as stunning brilliant and ingenious. Now physics professor Manabu YukawaDetective Galileoreturns in a new case of impossible murder where instincts clash with facts and theory with reality.Yoshitaka who was about to leave his marriage and his wife is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife Ayane is the logical suspectexcept that she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The lead detective Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant Kaoru Utsumi however is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumis instincts tell her one thing the facts of the case are another matter. So she does what her boss has done for years when stymiedshe calls upon Professor Manabu Yukawa.But even the brilliant mind of Dr. Yukawa has trouble with this one and he must somehow find a way to solve an impossible murder and capture a very real very deadly murderer.Salvation for a Saint is Keigo Higashino at his mind-bending best pitting emotion against fact in a beautifully plotted crime novel filled with twists and reverses that will astonish and surprise even the most attentive and jaded of readers.
language: English
title: Salvation of a Saint
publisher: Minotaur Books