Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as ‘Detective Galileo,’ has traveled to Hariguara, a once-popular summer months resort town that has fallen on crisis. He’s there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is definitely against the suggested operation, concerned about environmentally friendly impact on the area, known for its pristine waters. The additional faction, seeing no upcoming in the city as it is usually, believes its only hope is based on the about A Midsummer’s Formula: A Detective Galileo Mystery development project.

The night following the tense panel discussion, one of the resort’s guests is available dead for the seashore at the base of the neighborhood cliffs. The neighborhood police initially believe it was a straightforward accident-that he wandered over the edge while walking on unfamiliar territory in the middle of the night. However when they find that the victim was a previous policeman which the reason for loss of life was carbon monoxide poisoning, linked with emotions . believe he was murdered, and his body tossed off the cliff to misdirect the authorities.

As the authorities make an effort to uncover where Tsukahara was killed and why, Yukawa sees himself enmeshed in just one more confounding case of murder. In a series of twists as complex and astonishing as any in Higashino’s amazing, critically acclaimed work, Galileo uncovers the hidden romantic relationship behind the tragic events that resulted in this murder.