Salvation of A Saint by Japanese author Keigo Higashino is an unusual and fascinating crime novel. A man is found dead in his home in Tokyo. He has been poisoned, but by who? It would be obvious to suspect his wife Ayane, but she was several hundred miles from home at the time of the murder visiting her parents. She has an iron cast alibi. And what would her motive be?
Detective Kusanagi from the Tokyo police force who is leading the investigation becomes fascinated by the beautiful but mysterious Ayane. So fascinated that his female assistant Utsumi is in doubt whether Kusanagi can maintain his professional distance. Consequently, Utsumi contacts Professor Yukawa who has previously helped the police crack an impossible murder case. Though Yukawa earlier has informed the police that he doesn’t want to help them anymore his professional vanity forces him into trying to solve this apparently unsolvable murder case.
Keigo Higashino does not write crime novels the same way crime novelists in the western world do. He holds on to the Japanese way of thinking. Salvation of A Saint is written from a Japanese perspective which takes their values and their ideas of loyalty and feelings seriously even in the 21st century.
Salvation of A Saint is not a page-turner, but it is a quiet and intellectual challenging story about how the police solve the so it seems perfect crime. This is the second book I have read by Keigo Higashino, but it is not the last one. That is for sure.
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