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

by Keigo Higashino

Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.”

Confinement was like a limitless garden of paradise for him. How short is a lifetime, he thought, compared to the time it will take humankind to find all the rich veins of mathematical ore where they lie sleeping and tease them forth into the world.

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