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永遠の記憶
ガリレオシリーズ最新長編！
ガリレオシリーズ、待望の最新長編！
内海薫が刺された。
犯人は70歳ほどの老人。飛び降り自殺を図るも失敗し、
取り調べには黙秘を貫く。
やがて内海に恨みを抱く若い娘が捜査線上に浮かぶが、
老人との関係は不明。それどころか、内海への本当の復讐はこれからだった。
彼女が迫った「究極の選択」とは一体――。
一方、湯川と草薙は、老人の“ある持ち物”を手掛かりに、
「忘れてはいけない謎」の扉を開く。
シリーズ最新、最高峰の謎がいま明かされる。
ガリレオシリーズ、待望の最新長編！
内海薫が刺された。
犯人は70歳ほどの老人。飛び降り自殺を図るも失敗し、
取り調べには黙秘を貫く。
やがて内海に恨みを抱く若い娘が捜査線上に浮かぶが、
老人との関係は不明。それどころか、内海への本当の復讐はこれからだった。
彼女が迫った「究極の選択」とは一体――。
一方、湯川と草薙は、老人の“ある持ち物”を手掛かりに、
「忘れてはいけない謎」の扉を開く。
シリーズ最新、最高峰の謎がいま明かされる。
296 pages, Hardcover
Published August 5, 2026
About the author
Keigo Higashino
233 books8,934 followersAssociated Names:
* Keigo Higashino
* 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)
Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.
Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.
In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and published by Vertical under the title of Naoko in 2004. In 2006, he won the 134th Naoki Prize for Yōgisha X no Kenshin. His novels had been nominated five times before winning with this novel.
The Devotion of Suspect X was the second highest selling book in all of Japan— fiction or nonfiction—the year it was published, with over 800,000 copies sold. It won the prestigious Naoki Prize for Best Novel— the Japanese equivalent of the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize. Made into a motion picture in Japan, The Devotion of Suspect X spent 4 weeks at the top of the box office and was the third highest‐grossing film of the year.
Higashino’s novels have more movie and TV series adaptations than Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum, and as many as Michael Crichton.
* Keigo Higashino
* 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)
Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.
Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.
In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and published by Vertical under the title of Naoko in 2004. In 2006, he won the 134th Naoki Prize for Yōgisha X no Kenshin. His novels had been nominated five times before winning with this novel.
The Devotion of Suspect X was the second highest selling book in all of Japan— fiction or nonfiction—the year it was published, with over 800,000 copies sold. It won the prestigious Naoki Prize for Best Novel— the Japanese equivalent of the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize. Made into a motion picture in Japan, The Devotion of Suspect X spent 4 weeks at the top of the box office and was the third highest‐grossing film of the year.
Higashino’s novels have more movie and TV series adaptations than Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum, and as many as Michael Crichton.
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August 16, 2026
Being the final book from an author I have greatly enjoyed over the years, I was really hoping to give this a positive review. But it just isn't very good, and certainly not up to the level of Higashino Keigo's output. The final twist may be intended to place this work in the lineage of its predecessors, it really just reminds us that this used to be a much better series.
(The following is all from the dust jacket, so unless you want to avoid even that much, please do not read further). The final Galileo mystery finds Utsumi being stabbed by a 70-year-old man in a supermarket. However, this is only the beginning of the revenge against Utsumi. Except it really isn't. Actually, this "mystery" just gets resolved by the two characters involved, who sing like birds the second a policeman asks them a basic question. There is no police work required to figure out the situation. It is just a tossed together plot in search of characters with any dimension. I don't even agree that it is a "mystery"--it is just something that happened, which then required the people involved to explain it all in exceptional detail. It is axiomatic that good writing shows, not tells, and this book could really use that lesson.
The tacked-on plot involving a past entry in this series doesn't really make any sense, when you stop and think about it. So what was the point? I guess it is to take the author down memory lane, so he along with his characters can float on in the past. He is due this much, as a person, but as a reader, I felt on the short end of the stick.
(The following is all from the dust jacket, so unless you want to avoid even that much, please do not read further). The final Galileo mystery finds Utsumi being stabbed by a 70-year-old man in a supermarket. However, this is only the beginning of the revenge against Utsumi. Except it really isn't. Actually, this "mystery" just gets resolved by the two characters involved, who sing like birds the second a policeman asks them a basic question. There is no police work required to figure out the situation. It is just a tossed together plot in search of characters with any dimension. I don't even agree that it is a "mystery"--it is just something that happened, which then required the people involved to explain it all in exceptional detail. It is axiomatic that good writing shows, not tells, and this book could really use that lesson.
The tacked-on plot involving a past entry in this series doesn't really make any sense, when you stop and think about it. So what was the point? I guess it is to take the author down memory lane, so he along with his characters can float on in the past. He is due this much, as a person, but as a reader, I felt on the short end of the stick.
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