The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)

by Keigo Higashino

He was like the thin crack in her apartment wall. She knew it was there, but she had never paid it that much attention. It just wasn’t worth paying attention to.

‘Murder is murder. Everything else is just details.’

And he was sure their problem had a solution. Every problem had one.

‘Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?

A feeling rose inside him, making him queasy, as though an elaborate formula he’d thought was perfect was now giving false results because of an unpredictable variable.

Basically, it asks whether it’s more difficult to think of the solution to a problem yourself or to ascertain if someone else’s answer to the same problem is correct.’

‘There are some things in life that we have to accept as truth, even though we don’t want to believe them. I know that.’

‘There are people in this world who could disappear overnight and no one would bother looking for them, or worry where they had gone.