Name: mitha's review of Silent Parade by Keigo Higashino
Item: Silent Parade
Rating: 4.5
Author: mitha

Keigo Higashino

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. 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. CI 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.

Silent Parade

mitha

Who would’ve thought - a statement when reading this book. Finished this a day before Keigo Higashino’s birthday, what a gem!

raven

Keigo Higashino you will always be my underrated mystery-writing GOAT. Unbelievably engaging with just the right amount of twists and tangles. Also makes me want to try Namiki-ya's takiawase if it existed lol

amira

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3.5 stars actually, not his best, not the best in the series, but still interesting enough.

Savindi Jinasena

Keigo Higashino will always be one of my favourite authors. And again, this book doesn't disappoint. If anything, it looks at the complexities of being human and the reasons we do the things in the name of love. At first, I thought that this book would be like "Murder on the Orient Express" because of multiple characters. However, Higashino surprised me in that while there were many characters, they didn't play the same parts as they did in Orient Express. I think the departure from that sort of plot was a good one. I definitely didn't see that ending coming. 

I think Malice will always be my favourite Higashino murder mystery because it was the first one I read by him and it blew me away. But Silent Parade was a welcome addition to his translated works! I would recommend it to all the Higashino fans. 

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