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"With its stopwatch timing, locked-room murder and perplexing abundance of alibis.... Readers are in store for plenty of surprises." ―Wall Street Journal

Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in Silent Parade, a complex and challenging mystery―several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidence.

A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned out house. There’s a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn’t indicted, he returns to mock the girl’s family. And this isn’t the first time he’s been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.

The neighborhood in which the murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street festival, featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During the parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is suspiciously convenient but the people with all the best motives have rock solid alibis. DCI Kusanagi turns once again to his college friend, Physics professor and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, to help solve the string of impossible-to-prove murders.

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"A great sense of pacing, suspense, and surprises...a slam-bang literary reinvention." --Providence Journal

"A twist-and-turn mystery... Terrific." --Shelf Awareness

"Realistic characters and beguiling descriptions...those looking for an uncommon mystery will be delighted." --Library Journal (starred review)

" Higashino has more than a few tricky plot twists up his sleeve ... extremely clever and unpredictable." --Bookreporter

"Stellar...a flawless blend of police procedural and fair-play detection." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Higashino skillfully combines Yukawa’s intriguing scientific reasoning with empathetic portrayals of Hasunuma’s victims, and both enhance the intricate murder plot’s leisurely paced unraveling." --Booklist

"Fans of golden age puzzles will wish this one could go on forever." --Kirkus Reviews

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Born in Osaka and currently living in Tokyo, Keigo Higashino is one of the most widely known and bestselling novelists in Japan. He is the winner of the Edogawa Rampo Prize (for best mystery), the Mystery Writers of Japan, Inc. Prize (for best mystery) among others. His novels are translated widely throughout Asia.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books (December 14, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250624819
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250624819
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.61 x 1.2 x 9.27 inches

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OldBoyLarry

Heart wrenching and mind bending

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2023

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Higashino again combines a situation guaranteed to capture your affections while chilling your blood. Every chapter seems to present a new and unimagined plot twist, while kindling moral outrage with unthinkable injustice. The solution to the mystery? Totally unexpected!

One drawback to the Kindle edition: with so many similar-sounding names (at least for a non-native Japanese speaker) the cast of characters at the beginning of the book is a priceless resource. In a paper book I would have immediately put a sticky marker in the cast of characters. In the Kindle edition it is not nearly so straightforward, so I often ended up wondering helplessly which of the many characters was being talked about.

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Silent Parade attempts to be an Agatha Christie or John Dickinson Carr mystery where the reader is expected to puzzle over the truly weird method of murder. I generally find that type of story to be contrived, and that was the case for me with this.

I picked it up because I have enjoyed Higashino's work in the past, but this one was not up to his best. One character, a female police officer who is reduced to a note taking role here, blurts out that the method of the murder is unnecessarily complex, and I found myself cheering for her. "You and me both, sister. "

I find it hard to talk about my objections to the book, since they go to plot pretty directly and I don't want to give it away. The book does point out some unique aspects of the Japanese judicial system that were interesting, and important to the story.

Recommended actually. The book delivers what it promises.

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Kim

A great mystery writer!

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Higashino is becomming one of my favourites!

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Not Higashino's finest, but is it a translator issue?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2022

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I have read all of Keigo Higashino's novels translated into English, and I highly recommend that any lover of traditional mysteries should rush to read The Devotion of Suspect X, Naoko, Under the Midnight Sun, and Newcomer. Higashino writes tightly plotted, well-developed stories with interesting characters and a fine sense of place. The details -- particularly his interest in food and drink -- convey everyday life in Japan vividly.

That said, Silent Parade disappoints. I don't know if the fault is in the writer or the translator (Giles Murray). And since I do not read Japanese, who am I to criticize the translation? But what strikes me is that the tone and use of idiom in this novel is very different from Higashino's earlier work. There are surprisingly clumsy moments, such as several characters using exactly the same expression, and unusual words and phrases repeated throughout the novel. Many of the word choices are a bit outdated -- "hammerblow," "sexpot," etc. -- but this isn't as jarring as the laziness of the repetitions. Again, I don't know if this is the author or the translator, but it is unfortunate.

Still, Higashino's genius for plotting comes through, and this is an intriguing mystery you probably will not completely solve. I would recommend it to mystery devotees . . . but if it is your first foray into Higashino, please treat yourself to one of his classics before judging him as a novelist.

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One of the best Japanese authors of detective novels

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The Japanese have a way with getting away with writing about crimes against others without all the extra grime that Americans do while still understanding the level of brutality, commitment and emotional disregard/turmoil that is involved! It is a quieter and thus, at times, even more chilling as a result. I have read all but one novel by Higashino which just arrived and hope another will be coming despite his age! His crimes are murders are so intelligent, which is amazing as his first or second theories feel to leave few even more outlandish and scientific possibilities... but always do. His books are smart and factual, but very rooted in developing and understanding the human characteristics in his characters that drive them to commit murder.

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Kyle

Good and twisty

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2022

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As good as the others. Many twists and surprises. Anyone who enjoys mystery novels will enjoy it. Same with the rest of the series.

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the best of the series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 13, 2022

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A story very much in the vein of a good Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes. A detailed and convoluted story, with lots of twists and turns and surprises along the way. But it all comes together in a satisfying g conclusion. My only criticism is that the translation is, at times, not very good and there are quite a few editing errors. But these are all minor and nothing that takes away from a great read. What’s interesting and unique about this series is that, in each book, we know the guilty party very early on. So the whole book is about how the crime is solved rather than who committed it. One would expect this to not be very interesting but in Higashino’s hands, it really is fascinating.

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KMC

Not Higashino's best

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 23, 2022

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Most of his books are immediately engaging. this one takes a while. It is good.

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stevieb

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 27, 2022

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I used to look forward to Higashino books but the last two I’ve read (Nagano Thrift Shop and this one) have been, I think, underwhelming. Unfortunately I can’t read them in Japanese so I can’t be sure but both seem to have had ‘lazy’ translations into US pop culture, maybe the author filled ‘the parade’ with Disney characters in the original but I suspect (and hope) not. This seems to be a trend in a lot of recent translations of Japanese books into ‘english’. I buy Japanese books to read and learn about Japanese culture not Disneyland. if the problem lies not in the translation but in the original then things are even worse than I thought. Or If Americans are unwilling to stretch their minds to anything outside their own culture one wonders why they buy foreign books in the first place, the problem I suspect lies not with the readers but with the publishers.

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David Ward

Fast delivery as decribed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 11, 2022

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Gus M.

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 16, 2022

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Laura Ribaudo

Masterful as usual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 4, 2022

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I love this author, can't wait for the next book from him!

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Silent Parade - the 4th Thriller in the series...

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on December 16, 2021

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... about Professor Yukawa aka "Detective Galileo", masterly written by Keigo Higashino. The famous Professor of Physics has been for years now a most valuable help for the Tokyo Police Department and his friend Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi and his team. And this time the crime is really bizarre: The victim is a widely hated two-time suspected killer of two young girls. Who had to be released every time because he remained silent. He simply sat out all the questions of the Police and and got away scot-free. The first time it was a 12-year-old girl who vanished and only years later her burnt and buried bones were discovered. This case went through a trial, but even with substantial evidence but no witnesses nor confession the presumed killer had to be acquitted.
Three years ago another girl vanished into thin air, only to be now found burnt to her bones in the house of the acquitted killer's old mother. She was found dead and burnt, too - but by seemingly natural causes for about 6 years. First suspect: Her son, who kept drawing her pension for all those years. And he stalked the girl in her parent's restaurant, misbehaved around her - until banned from returning. He made some very vile remarks and soon after that the girl disappeared. This time too, there are some proofs - but the accused remains silent. And the Police cannot nail him for a second time. But now enters Professor Yukawa - a sort of Japanese "Sherlock Poirot" - who helps. And his findings will bring light into the horrible deaths of both girls...
A fantastic book full of twists and turns and really fine designed personalities. The plot is dense and more than once I thought to be on the right path. But it's not over until it's really over. I have read all the other books of this exceptional author and I am really hooked. Who loves their crime novels with a lot of mysteries and questions may love the books of Keigo Higashino. I am avidly awaiting his next one...

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