Keigo Higashino is the author of more than fifty novels who has been popular in Japan for twenty years. Now every new work of his becomes an event. In his homeland, he has been awarded all the major literary awards and prizes, and dozens of film and film adaptations have been made based on his novels, splashing out on the screens the piercing suspense and gloomy atmosphere of his detective stories. Crimes with mystical motives? Ghosts? Vengeful spirits? Can detective Kusanagi and his ironic friend, the brilliant physicist Yukawa, uncover Tokyo's dark criminal secrets? And won't this ruin their friendship? Only a sophisticated mind is able to find a simple solution in the labyrinths of human hypocrisy. But can he believe in the supernatural when he comes face to face with it?