Edogawa Ranpo Award えどがわらんぽしょう
Edition 51 (2005)
Literary awardMystery novel
Winners
1 peopleTakashi Hiyama, a café manager, lives with his young daughter while carrying anger that the three boys who killed his wife were not tried under the juvenile justice system. Years later, one of the boys is murdered and suspicion also falls on Hiyama. Tracing what became of the boys, he confronts questions of guilt, rehabilitation, and the pain of bereaved victims' families.
As the boys who killed his wife die one after another, a bereaved husband's anger collides with the unresolved truth of juvenile crime.
360 pages
juvenile crimebereaved victims' familiesrevengerehabilitationsocial mystery