The author is one of Japan's most popular novelists; this is the second book in his Detective Galileo series, following The Devotion of Suspect X, and followed by A Midsummer's Equation.
"Detective Galileo" is the nickname of Professor Manabu Yukawa, a physicist at the University in Tokyo, who uses his scientific method and knowledge to assist his friend, Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi, and solve cases that are baffling the police.
In this book, the case involves the death by poisoning of a successful businessman, found dead alone in his own home. The most obvious suspect is the man's devoted wife. After only a year of marriage, he had just announced his intention of filing for divorce. To add insult to injury, he was having an affair with his wife's protege', had gotten the girl pregnant, and intended to marry her.
But when the murder occurred, the wife was hundreds of miles away visiting her parents. And the police face another problem: determining just how the poison was administered. It seems to be the perfect crime: implausible, methodical, unsolvable. Even when, with painstaking effort, Kusanagi reluctantly builds a case establishing who committed the crime, it will take all of Yukawa's brilliance to help Kusanagi discover just how it was contrived.
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