Detective Galileo Series: A Midsummer's Equation : A Detective Galileo Mystery (Series #3) (Paperback)

from rrkreads

This was an ok book for me. Too many plotlines, too many investigations. Everything did come together in the end but it was not half as satisfactory or enjoyable as the other books. I did like Yukawa & kyohei's mentor mentee kind of relationship. But Yukawa's genius & deciphering skills were not ...

from ritaer

This is the second book I book I have read by Higashino and a pattern emerges of long-buried crimes coming to the surface years later. A retired homicide detective is found near the sea-wall of a coastal town. The local police assume an accident. But his friends in Tokyo refer the case to the pre...

from johnwbeha

Given that I had never read any Japanese fiction until last year, it keeps cropping up on my reading list. This is a sort of police procedural in which each of the who, how and why questions about a murder are equally weighted. The characterisations, particularly of the boy and the physics profes...

from ozzer

What Keigo Higashino's A MIDSUMMER'S EQUATION lacks in action, it more than makes up for in realistic characters and settings; interesting plot twists; well-considered and deliberate pacing; and a benevolent theme. The plot follows three lines of investigation into the suspicious death of Masatsu...

from Yamamura

I have enjoyed Keigo Higashino ever since reading Naoko. The one thing I really enjoyed about A Midsummer's Equation is that it is a Who-dunnit as opposed to Devotion of Suspect X and Salvation of a Saint which are How-dunnits. He lays enough clues as the story went on, that as a reader, I suspec...