The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #3)

by Keigo Higashino

He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them. He knew he should never even attempt to make contact. It was like his relationship with mathematics: it was enough merely to be associated with something so sublime. To seek any kind of acknowledgment would sully its dignity.

Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone’s savior.

He would have to detach them completely from the case. He would make it seem as though they were connected, and yet there could be no doubt that they had nothing to do with the murder.