Silent Parade

<p><b>"With its stopwatch timing, locked-room murder and perplexing abundance of alibis.... Readers are in store for plenty of surprises." ¿<i>Wall Street Journal</i><br><br><i>Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino¿s best loved character from </i>The Devotion of Suspect X<i>, returns in </i>Silent Parade<i>, a complex and challenging mystery¿several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidence.</i><br></b><br>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. Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.<br><br>The neighborhood in which the murde