From the author who pulled off literary magic in 'Salvation of a Saint' and 'Devotion of Suspect X', this book went automatically on my reading list. I had thought Higashino's standards had lowered with 'The Name of The Game...' but this book was decidedly worse. Higashino is best at slow burn thrillers where you know who committed the crime but games are afoot to evade the law, but he struggles to put together something even half thrilling in 'A Midsummer's Equation'. The story is linear and placid. And flashes of Higashino's brilliance are rare. Readable only as a flight-read.
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