Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is against the proposed operation, concerned about the environmental impact on the area, known for its pristine waters. The other faction, seeing no future in the town as it is, believes its only hope lies in the development project.
The night after the tense panel discussion, one of the resort's guests is found dead on the seashore at the base of the local cliffs. The local police at first believe it was a simple accident-that he wandered over the edge while walking on unfamiliar territory in the middle of the night. But when they discover that the victim was a former policeman and that the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin to suspect he was murdered, and his body tossed off the cliff to misdirect the police.
As the police try to uncover where Tsukahara was killed and why, Yukawa finds himself enmeshed in yet another confounding case of murder. In a series of twists as complex and surprising as any in Higashino's brilliant, critically acclaimed work, Galileo uncovers the hidden relationship behind the tragic events that led to this murder.
安静的海滨小镇上，成实家经营着一间年久失修的旅馆，游客日渐稀少。盛夏的一天，旅馆迎来了三位与东京有关的客人：帝都大学物理系副教授汤川学、警视厅退休刑警和小学五年级男孩。当晚，汤川学去了居酒屋；男孩和成实的父亲在后院放烟花；刑警晚餐后不见踪影，第二天被发现死在了海边。
警方准备以意外结案，却查不出死者为何来到这个小镇、选择这间旅馆；成实感到奇怪，死者似乎早就认识自己，但两人分明素不相识；男孩隐约觉得看到了奇怪的事情，却无法说清；汤川学发现身边有许多不合逻辑之处，比如旅馆墙上的海景画描绘的并不是这里的风景。
远在东京的一个人喃喃自语：“对不起，是我害了你们。但我什么都不会说，到死也不会。”
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