A homicide and familial driven premise told in multiple perspectives following Chief Inspector Kusanagi and his squad in investigating a murder case of a corpse that was found floating in Tokyo Bay with a bullet wound on his back. A mysterious case at first when the victim’s live-in girlfriend; Sonoka Shimauchi was nowhere to be found after filing a missing person report on her boyfriend and went too twisty later when one of the person related to Sonoka was revealed to have a direct connection to Kusanagi’s close friend; Professor Manabu Yukawa.

From years ago prologue of an unnamed woman to Chizuko and both Ryota and Sonoka’s narratives— a taut whodunnit mystery that brought me to delve into one’s vulnerability and familial bond, of guilt, regret and desperation that tied a years ago tragedy to one’s devious and ingenious motive. Bit curious on how Yukawa would go helping out Kusanagi (though he emphasized that he would not) with his usual I-work-alone mode, loved the interaction of him and Utsumi as well how emotionally the case go unfolding his past— that glimpses of Yukawa’s childhood and familial history which giving me more insight and dynamic to our Galileo’s character.

Bit tense for its domestic abuse and morality concern— could foreseen on how Sonoka and Hidemi’s narratives would interlaced, having my own guesses yet that revelation from Sonoka later stunned me. It was much personal with a vivid story of one’s grief and remorse rather than a thrilling crime mystery and I was more interested with both Hidemi and Nae’s backstories (frankly I did not care much about Ryota’s death anymore) that it wretched me on how the mystery resolved through those confessions and revelations at the end.

Thank you Pansing Distribution for the gifted review copy!