Detective Galileo Salvation of a Saint, Book 2, (Paperback)

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

The end is given at the beginning but read on anyway. A real treat this one if you like a mystery. You know who has done it but not how and the female lead is busy cracking the code to the solution and the murder by the other female lead. This is by the guy who wrote The Devotion of Suspect X whi...

from Laura400

I liked this one. It's an enjoyable variation on a traditional mystery. Here, the reader knows who did it, but not how. So we watch the detectives try to figure it out, with the help of a Sherlockian physics professor they consult. The book isn't particularly good at giving us a sense of of conte...

from knittingmomof3

Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino is a spellbinding mystery and the second in the English translation of the "Detective Galileo" series. Higashino has once again written an intelligent suspense thriller about a troubled marriage that ends in the poisoning death of the husband with evidence ...

from RajivC

"Salvation of A Saint" is a fun book, but not perfect. It's a rare murder mystery in which you know, or seem to know, who the killer is right in the beginning. It is an almost perfect murder, which is why "Inspector Galileo" enters the game. He applies scientific methods to figure out the logic...

from Beamis12

This is only the second detective story I have read set in Japan. It is amazing, the many difference in the tone and writing of the various stories set in different countries. The British mysteries are very detailed, slower moving and atmospheric. The Nordic mysteries are very stark, the writing ...