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Ayukawa Tetsuya Award あゆかわてつやしょう

Edition 28 (2018)

Newcomer Literary AwardFull-length Mystery Novel

Winners

5 people
Kohei Kawasumi かわすみ こうへい award

Set in Sapporo, a girl reunites with her childhood friend and detective, Torikai Ayumu, who no longer attends school, and faces everyday mysteries. This coming-of-age mystery is built from four stories and was published after winning the award.

Boys and girls grow a little through the mysteries they encounter.

224 pages
Sapporocoming-of-age mysteryeveryday mysterieschildhood friendsaward winner
1986年 / フリーター / 北海道
Hojo Kie ほうじょう きえ nominee

Recorded as a finalist for the 28th Ayukawa Tetsuya Award, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed in public bibliographic sources.

A finalist work with no confirmed standalone publication in public bibliographies.

finalistunpublishedAyukawa Tetsuya Award
Okamoto Yoshiki おかもと よしき nominee

Recorded as a finalist for the 28th Ayukawa Tetsuya Award, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed in public bibliographic sources.

A finalist work with no confirmed standalone publication in public bibliographies.

finalistunpublishedAyukawa Tetsuya Award
Komatsu Miyabi こまつ みやび nominee

Recorded as a finalist for the 28th Ayukawa Tetsuya Award, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed in public bibliographic sources.

A finalist work with no confirmed standalone publication in public bibliographies.

finalistunpublishedAyukawa Tetsuya Award
Yukashina Miho ゆかしな みほ nominee

A linked mystery set in a Kyoto clerical clothing shop, where a missing-item request escalates into a locked-room murder. The finalist work Red Casablanca was later published as 431-Second Murder: Kyoto Tsuji-uranai Detective Rokkaku.

The finalist work was later published as 431-Second Murder.

317 pages
Kyotolinked short storieslocked roommissing-item searchretitled publication