20 Great International Mysteries, February 2012

“I have to protect them, thought Ishigami. He would never be this close to so beautiful a woman ever again in his life. He was sure of that. He had to summon every bit of his strength to prevent any calamity from happening to her.” A math teacher performs the unthinkable act of helping his neighbor, an abused wife cover up the murder of her deadbeat husband. Higashino’s twisted, spellbinding story follows a veteran detective and a brilliant physicist through their clever investigations.