Invisible Helix (Detective Galileo, #5)

by Keigo Higashino

“No. There’s nothing so grotesque as someone who’s been jilted running after the person who jilted them. That’s never been my style.”

Real

mot juste?—

Yukawa knit his brows and turned his face toward the sea. Eventually, he said, “How long have you and I known one another? Ten years … No, it’s longer than that.” “I was only in my twenties.” “So you were.” Yukawa nodded. “I was planning to come clean to Kusanagi. I don’t think he’ll mind if I tell you first. After all, like you said, you’re here as his representative.” “That I am.” Kaoru looked at Yukawa’s profile. “Nae Matsunaga”—Yukawa exhaled loudly before he went on—“is my birth mother.”