Salvation of a Saint

Salvation of a Saint

Cover of English translation
Author	Keigo Higashino
Original title	Seijo no Kyūsai 聖女の救済
Translator	Alexander O. Smith
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Series	Detective Galileo
Genre	Crime / Mystery novel
Publisher	Bungeishunjū (Japanese) Minotaur Books (English)
Publication date	2008
Published in English	2012
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	378 (Japanese) 336 (English)
ISBN	978-4-163-27610-6 (Japanese) ISBN 978-0-312-60068-6 (English)
Preceded by	The Devotion of Suspect X
Followed by	Galileo no Kunō ガリレオの苦悩

Salvation of a Saint (聖女の救済 Seijo no Kyūsai) is a 2008 novel by Keigo Higashino, the fourth in his Detective Galileo series. The English translation was published in 2012.

Plot

Yoshitaka Mashiba, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the obvious suspect—but she was hundreds of miles away when he was murdered. The Police Detective Kusanagi refuses to believe that she could have had anything to do with the crime. His assistant, Kaoru Utsumi, however, is convinced Ayane is guilty. While Utsumi’s instincts tell her one thing, the facts of the case are another matter. So she does what her boss has done for years when stymied—she calls upon Professor Manabu Yukawa.