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| Silent Parade by Keigo Higashino |
Identitas Buku
Penulis: Keigo Higashino.
Penerbit: Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
Seri: Detektif Galileo (bagian dari seri ini, setelah The Devotion of Suspect X).
Genre: Misteri, pembunuhan (murder mystery), thriller, fiksi Jepang.
ISBN: 9786020684949
Halaman: 512
Fakta Menarik
Judul Jepang novel ini adalah Chinmoku no Parade yang secara harfiah berarti parade keheningan. Keheningan ini bukan cuma soal minimnya saksi, tapi juga diamnya masyarakat yang menyimpan kemarahan dan rasa bersalah bersama sama.
Mari Kita Ulas
Parade senyap – Bagaimana rasanya hidup di dunia yang tahu siapa pembunuhnya, tapi hukum pura pura tidak melihat apa apa?
Itulah fenomena yang terjadi pada cerita Parade Senyap karya Keigo Higashino. Ada seorang pria yang selalu dicurigai, namanya terus disebut, wajahnya diingat semua orang. Namun setiap kali kasus dibuka, ia selalu pergi dengan tangan bersih. Bukan karena ia tak bersalah, tapi karena bukti tak pernah cukup.
Ketika sisa jasad seorang gadis yang menghilang bertahun tahun lalu akhirnya ditemukan, luka lama kembali terbuka. Polisi kembali berada di jalan buntu, dan kemarahan publik semakin sunyi, semakin terpendam.
Di titik inilah Profesor Yukawa hadir. Bukan sekadar untuk memecahkan trik kejahatan, tapi untuk berdiri di antara hukum, logika, dan rasa keadilan yang tak lagi sejalan.
Parade Senyap bukan soal siapa pelakunya. Ini tentang apa yang tersisa ketika kebenaran sudah jelas, tapi keadilan memilih diam.
Opiniku
Kembali baca buku Keigo tuh rasanya kaya menapaki masa yang telah berlalu buatku. Pertama kali baca buku-bukunya pas lagi kuliah dan langsung klop sama gaya penulisan dan alur ceritanya. Beberapa buku murder mystery-nya penuh plot twist dan detail-nya gak main-main, termasuk buku ‘Silent Parade’ ini.
Keigo gak mungkin hanya melampirkan satu lini cerita di dalam satu novel, pasti ceritanya berlayer dan satu masalah punya banyak red string ke cerita-cerita yang lain. Di ‘Silent Parade’ kisah utamanya merupakan cabang dari kisah masa lalu yang belum terpecahkan, atau lebih tepatnya publik belum puas dengan keputusan jaksa dengan hasil persidangan kasus.
Kisah ini bener-bener detail dan tiap-tiap chapternya bikin aku gak bisa berhenti baca bukunya untuk tau gimana sih, para pembunuh ini membunuh sang korban? Kok bisa ya membunuh tanpa jejak…
Oh iya, ini tipe alur dengan how they done it ya…
English Version 🇦🇸
Fun Fact
The original Japanese title of this novel is Chinmoku no Parade which literally means parade of silence. This silence is not only about the lack of witnesses but also about a society that chooses to stay quiet while holding anger and shared guilt inside.
Here comes the review
Silent Parade asks a disturbing question. What does it feel like to live in a world where everyone knows who the killer is but the law pretends not to see anything?
That is the core situation in Silent Parade by Keigo Higashino. There is a man who is always suspected. His name is known and his face is remembered. Yet every time the case is reopened he walks away freely. Not because he is innocent but because the evidence is never enough.
When the remains of a girl who disappeared years ago are finally found old wounds are reopened. The police hit another dead end and public anger becomes quieter and more buried.
This is where Professor Yukawa steps in. Not only to solve a criminal trick but to stand between the law logic and a sense of justice that no longer move in the same direction.
Silent Parade is not about who did it. It is about what remains when the truth is already clear but justice chooses to stay silent.
My Opinion
Reading Keigo Higashino again feels like walking back into a past version of myself. I first read his books during my college years and instantly connected with his writing style and story flow. Many of his murder mystery novels are packed with sharp twists and insane details and Silent Parade is no exception.
Keigo never tells just one straight story. His novels are always layered where one problem is tied to many red threads that lead to other stories. In Silent Parade the main case grows from an unresolved past case or more precisely from public dissatisfaction with the prosecutor decision at the time.
This story is extremely detailed and every chapter made it impossible for me to stop reading. I kept wanting to know how the killers did it. How could someone kill without leaving a trace?
And yes this novel uses the how they done it type of plot.
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