If you're drawn to complex narratives that weave together a tapestry of lives affected by a single, haunting crime, "Journey Under the Midnight Sun" might captivate you. Keigo Higashino skillfully unfolds a mystery across twenty years, creating a puzzle that challenges not only the determined detective but also the reader at every turn. The dark intertwining destinies of the crime's connected souls capture a sense of inevitable fate that's hard to resist for lovers of intricate thrillers.

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• Naoki Prize 直木三十五賞 Nominee (1999)

A twenty-year-old murderA chain of unsolvable mysteriesCan one detective solve this epic riddle?When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are inextricably linked to the crime; the dark, taciturn son of the victim and the unexpectedly captivating daughter of the main suspect. Over the next twenty years we follow their lives as Sasagaki pursues the case - which remains unsolved - to the point of obsession.Stark, intriguing and stylish, Journey Under the Midnight Sun is an epic mystery by the bestselling Japanese author of The Devotion of Suspect X.

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