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Cargando... A Midsummer's Equationpor Keigo Higashino
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Alexandra_book_life | Dec 25, 2023 |    ) KallieGrace | Oct 5, 2023 | Physicist Manabu Yukawa, in town to work on the mining project, is staying at the same hotel. He has been used before by the Tokyo police and detective Kusanagi seeks his help again. Yukawa is a very cerebral character who analyses and questions what he sees but does not put forward his conclusions until he is sure. He only offers Kusanagi sufficient detail to move the investigation along, not to float theories and dismiss them. This book has a clever plot with some twists that I did not see coming. I liked the way that Yukawa goes about his investigation. As always, it is interesting to read Japanese noir to get an insight into the politics and hierarchies that underlie a bureaucracy such as a police department. This sets them apart from the typical police procedural. ( ) gjky | Apr 9, 2023 | ) cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 | The storytelling is magnificent, and I could not put the book down. (  ) RajivC | Aug 26, 2022 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is against the proposed operation, concerned about the environmental impact on the area, known for its pristine waters. The other faction, seeing no future in the town as it is, believes its only hope lies in the development project. The night after the tense panel discussion, one of the resort's guests is found dead on the seashore at the base of the local cliffs. The local police at first believe it was a simple accident-that he wandered over the edge while walking on unfamiliar territory in the middle of the night. But when they discover that the victim was a former policeman and that the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin to suspect he was murdered, and his body tossed off the cliff to misdirect the police. As the police try to uncover where Tsukahara was killed and why, Yukawa finds himself enmeshed in yet another confounding case of murder. In a series of twists as complex and surprising as any in Higashino's brilliant, critically acclaimed work, Galileo uncovers the hidden relationship behind the tragic events that led to this murder"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I am very happy to have discovered Keigo Higashino. This is my third novel by him, and there is a lot more for me to read (yay).
Unlike the other books in this series, the pace here is leisurely. The investigation is going slowly and keeps hitting dead ends. (There are slightly too many local detectives involved, though, I couldn’t tell them apart.) The sense of time and place is very well done – a small seaside town that has fallen on hard times, with beautiful places few people see and appreciate and environmental activists going up against a big corporation.
It was interesting that Yukawa and Kusanagi spent so much time apart, each unraveling his part of the mystery. I did miss them together and their arguments.
Yukawa-san, did anyone ever tell you that you are great with kids? You do wonderful things for Kyohei, being so humane, teaching him so much. Seeing their relationship form was my favourite thing in the book. “I don’t think I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a boy with his particular brand of obstinacy before.”
The scariest part is that the past is never truly that. It can come back to haunt you any time. The solution is heartbreaking. I liked the ending – at the same time, it left me sad and angry.
Did I mention I want more books? (