探偵ガリレオ

5 short murder mysteries with a scientific spin

The first of the Detective Galileo series, it contains 5 short stories of 60-70 pages each.

Content: Compared to 容疑者Xの献身 (the 3rd book in the series), which is one long story, the nature of the short stories leave little room to create a multifaceted cast or complicated case. The cases are overall rather simple, for all that they feature some scientific phenomenon. About a third of each story was the 種明かし. You do get some familiarity with and background information about the recurring cast throughout the cases, though.

Language: Little furigana. Grammatically, the language used is very uncomplicated. The vocabulary as well is overall on the simple/every day side. There is also terminology related to the murder cases and scientific experiments/explanations that is the exception to this, though. Perhaps due to being multiple shorter cases which required some new background information each time, the vocabularly felt a bit more difficult compared to 容疑者X. For someone with a good base vocabulary and understanding of grammar, I'd say it is easy enough to fill in the gaps with context and a dictionary.