Salvation of the Saint

Keigo Higashino is the author of more than fifty novels, who has been popular in Japan for twenty years now. Each of his new works has become an event. At home, he has been awarded all the major literary awards... and prizes, and dozens of adaptations and film adaptations have been made based on his novels, bringing the dark atmosphere of his detective stories to the screen.

In the fifth volume of the 'Galileo Detective' series, the battle between the criminal and the genius physicist takes on colossal proportions. As usual, science helps find a way out of the most mysterious situations.

A wealthy man is found dead in his own home. The police discover poison in his coffee, but it is unknown how it got there. The widow, with whom he was about to divorce, has an ironclad alibi. Investigator Kaoru Utsumi notices that her colleague Kusanagi is enchanted by the beauty of the widow and decides to seek the help of Detective Galileo — Manabu Yukawa...