A midsummer’s equation by Keigo Higashino….
A quiet little place in a dull country side, an old family run inn, an environmental protection team, an eccentric but genius scientist and detective and finally the most important….an accidental death!…or was it an accident!??..
So from being a routine run of the mill novel about some minor mix up, this turns out to be a twist and turn extravaganza as expected from Keigo!….
By now the only good point is that I have gotten used to the Japanese names and gender to a good degree!… And since this one is only around 300 pages long, it’s not very confusing!…
Like we have been taught in tonsillectomy that every dissection must yield result, you can be rest assured that every query or statement from the quirky Galileo is bound to mean something!…
So whilst a lot of time and pages are wasted in things not even close to the murder, you can still forgive the author in beating around the bush (to a certain extent of course!!)
Like his earlier novel especially the last one called Journey under the midnight sun, here also Keigo gives an important place and character to the young ones (mini spoiler!!)….. In fact at the very beginning it seemed like a John Grisham novel of the Theodre Boone series!… But that’s John and this is Keigo!…. It’s like Messi and Ronaldo!…. Both play their games in their own delightful ways!!…
This is the penultimate book by Keigo translated in english!… Only one more to go and I would have completed the whole set!… Of course a new translation called Newcomer is on the offing in August but we shall board the train when the time comes!…
For now read this to get a feel of Japanese country side, sea shore, tourism and of course the Japanese twister Keigo….
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