Midnight Sun

Is it a sin to be loved? And to love? In 1973, the body of a pawn shop director was found in an abandoned building. The murder investigation is entrusted to detective Sasagaki, and he dedicates the next twenty years of his life to this case. Guided by mere hypotheses and fragments of testimonies, the detective follows the criminal trail of the main suspects through the realities of the country in a difficult era. A colorful panorama of life in Japan through the eyes of a detective and two little schoolboys entwined in a complicated case. In this new monumental novel, master of detective prose Keigo Higashino skillfully weaves the lives of his characters, creating a fanciful epic tapestry.