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Detective Galileo Books in Order

Detective Galileo by Keigo Higashino contains 5 books, published between 2011 and 2021. The first book is The Devotion of Suspect X (2011) and the newest is Invisible Helix (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
2011–2021
Confirmed
5 of 5 titles
Pages on record
1,320 in 4 of 5 books
Reading time
22–33 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,320 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

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Detective Galileo is a Japanese crime series by Keigo Higashino, five books catalogued in English between 2011 and 2021: The Devotion of Suspect X (2011), Salvation of a Saint (2012), A Midsummer's Equation (2016), Silent Parade (2018) and Invisible Helix (2021). Physicists, teachers and police sit in the subject index alongside murder and serial murder investigation, with Japan as the setting. The books run to a median of 324 pages, and nothing new has been catalogued since 2021.

How many Detective Galileo books are there?

Detective Galileo has 5 books, released between 2011 and 2021.

Detective Galileo Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Detective Galileo books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino, book 2 of the Detective Galileo series (2012)
  2. Cover of A Midsummer's Equation by Keigo Higashino, book 3 of the Detective Galileo series (2016)
  3. Cover of Silent Parade by Keigo Higashino, book 4 of the Detective Galileo series (2018)
  1. 1
    The Devotion of Suspect X2011 · 312 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011312
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  2. 2
    Salvation of a Saint2012 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012336
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  3. 3
    A Midsummer's Equation2016 · 368 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016368
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  4. 4
    Silent Parade2018 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018304
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  5. 5
    Invisible Helix2021 · confirmed 3/4
    2021–
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Is there a chronological order for Detective Galileo?

No separate chronological order is on record for Detective Galileo, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Detective Galileo books in order?

You should read the Detective Galileo books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Detective Galileo book also stands alone.

Where to start with Detective Galileo

Start with The Devotion of Suspect X (2011), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Detective Galileo book?

Invisible Helix (2021) is the newest Detective Galileo book released so far.

Is there a new Detective Galileo book coming?

No next Detective Galileo book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Detective Galileo at a glance

Paused
No new Detective Galileo title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Detective Galileo books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,320 pages across the 4 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 324 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Detective Galileo books, 4 of 5, were published in the 2010s.

What the Detective Galileo books are about

4 of the 5 Detective Galileo books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Keigo Higashino

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.