A full-scale mystery novel set in schools and ordinary settings, accelerating by constantly rearranging rules and psychological battles.

A single game turns into a life-or-death puzzle.

A linked novel in which fragments of memory and incident overlap until the outline of reality begins to blur.

The world you thought you could see begins to drift, little by little.

A mystery novel that closely tracks relationships and emotions on the verge of explosion against a backdrop of social unease.

Relationships with a combustible charge slowly heat up.

A linked fantasy story set in a hotel that handles cursed objects and strange phenomena, where the guests’ circumstances and secrets tangle together.

In a hotel where protection and curses coexist, stories intersect in quiet ways.

A classic-style mystery that solves events in a sealed mansion through traditional trickery and logic.

The mansion’s mysteries unravel one by one in unsettling fashion.

Set in wartime Osaka, the novel follows Mizeko Nakase, a military officer's daughter who marries into the Omari family and is drawn into a series of tragedies. It blends the atmosphere of a merchant household with the shadows of war in a full-length classic mystery.

On the eve of the Osaka air raid, a daughter-in-law in a merchant family faces tragedy after tragedy.

Araki Murashige, trapped in Arioka Castle, asks the captive Kuroda Kanbei to solve the strange incidents inside the fortress. It is a sharp historical mystery that fuses a siege in the Sengoku era with classical deduction.

In a castle at war, only strategy can reach the truth.

Six students who survive the final stage of a job-hunting interview are forced to confront one another's lies and sins in a sealed-off discussion room. The dialogue-driven structure keeps overturning what readers think they know about each character.

In the job interview room, the six candidates are stripped of their truths and lies.

A string of murders breaks out in the rain-soaked Aomikan, drawing a boy who has come to see a famous detective into the heart of the case. It is a classic closed-circle mystery driven by logic and escalating tension.

In a mansion on the brink of being swallowed by floodwaters, an inescapable mystery begins.

A headless corpse found in a depopulated village sets off a confrontation between a terrorist advocating regional abandonment and the officials opposing him. The novel combines a contemporary local-government crisis with an impossible crime puzzle.

A threat made in the name of salvation exposes the harsh reality of the regions.

地方の風景や昆虫・標本といったモチーフを織り込みつつ、記憶や喪失を扱う長編および連作短編集。国内の主要ミステリ賞を受賞した代表作。

蟬かえる

欺瞞や偽装を巡る複雑なプロットの長編ミステリ。

欺瞞の殺意

昭和中期を舞台にした探偵小説。高齢期の新作として評価され、ミステリランキングで高い評価を受けた。

たかが殺人じゃないか 昭和24年の推理小説

短編・中編を含む作品集。密室トリックや論理パズルを主体とした構成が特徴。

透明人間は密室に潜む

従来の探偵像を揺さぶる構成と仕掛けを持つ長編ミステリ。評論的な注目を集め、本格ミステリ大賞候補にも選出された。

楽園とは探偵の不在なり

A full-scale mystery in which medium Hishui and mystery writer Kogetsu take on a serial murder case. It is known for its sharply engineered twist.

It follows two people who combine spiritual power and logic to approach the truth behind the case.

Katana to Kasa: Meiji Keiraku Suiricho is a linked historical mystery set in late-Edo Kyoto. Owari retainer Moromitsu Kano and the future justice minister Shinpei Eto confront locked-room puzzles, poisonings, and strange deaths while the novel also captures the sorrow of ordinary people caught in political upheaval.

Two investigators illuminate mysteries born in the shadows of late-Edo Kyoto with rigorous logic.

A classic-style mystery in which university mystery-club members Hamura Yuzuru and Akechi Kyosuke, together with detective Kenzaki Hiruko, visit the film club's retreat at Shijinsou and are drawn into an unforeseen crisis and a locked-in setting. It fuses extreme suspense with logical detection.

In the midst of despair, a bizarre premise and a fair-play puzzle are locked together.

A fair-play mystery that pursues secrets hidden in the iroha poem and the shadow of Meiji-era translator and detective-fiction pioneer Ruiko Kuroiwa. It combines codes, wordplay, and literary history to offer the pleasure of decipherment.

Beyond the labyrinth of words, Ruiko's shadow and a murderous intent emerge.

死と砂時計 is a 小説 work by 鳥飼否宇 associated with the 2016 受賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.

死と砂時計 by 鳥飼否宇 is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.

Sayonara, God is a linked mystery collection in which an elementary school boy, Taro Suzuki, becomes involved in puzzling cases. Everyday exchanges slide into unsettling truths, combining sharp logic with Maya Yutaka's characteristically bitter aftertaste.

A boy who calls himself God reveals the cruel logic hidden behind each case.

スノーホワイト 名探偵三途川理と少女の鏡は千の目を持つ is an award-winning work by 森川智喜. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.

スノーホワイト 名探偵三途川理と少女の鏡は千の目を持つ, an award-winning work by 森川智喜.

密室蒐集家 is an award-winning work by 大山誠一郎. Award records and public bibliographic data identify it as a work that gathers the author's characteristic concerns and style.

密室蒐集家, an award-winning work by 大山誠一郎.

虚構推理 鋼人七瀬 is an award-winning work by 城平京. Public bibliographic sources were checked first for book identifiers, then for descriptive information about the work.

A bibliographic profile of 虚構推理 鋼人七瀬, based on award records and public book data.

Sekigan no Shoujo is a formal mystery in which college student Shizuma meets Mikage, a one-eyed girl detective, after a murder in a remote village. Although the case appears to be solved, the nightmare returns eighteen years later, unsettling the reader's deductions.

A case solved by a one-eyed girl detective returns to confront the reader eighteen years later.

水魑の如き沈むもの is a work by 三津田信三. A mystery that builds tension through clues and relationships, giving weight to the path toward the truth.

水魑の如き沈むもの draws readers into its world through concentrated language and the force of its subject.

完全恋愛は、牧薩次名義の辻真先による長編ミステリです。戦時下から戦後へ続く一途な恋を軸に、時代の傷と本格ミステリの仕掛けを重ねています。

長い歳月を貫く恋のかたちが、事件の真相とともに浮かび上がる長編です。

A full-length entry in the Student Alice series featuring Jiro Egami and Alice Arisugawa. Around a religious group in the Kiso mountains, it develops a closed-setting mystery and logical deduction.

In a castle-like mountain community, threads of logic lead to the heart of the case.

シャドウ is an award-winning work by 道尾秀介. It presents its subject through a concise literary frame, focusing on voice, atmosphere, and the emotional movement of the characters or speaker.

シャドウ shows the qualities for which 道尾秀介 was recognized in this award year.

A full-length Galileo mystery in which Ishigami, a brilliant mathematician, constructs a perfect crime to protect the mother and daughter next door. Logical elegance overlaps with the pain of devotion.

To protect the woman he loves, a mathematician builds the most elegant deception.

Ask the Severed Head is a classic mystery by Rintaro Norizuki featuring his detective namesake. A severed plaster head opens into a logical investigation of an artistic family, its relationships, and buried secrets.

A severed plaster head leads into a maze of family secrets and deductive logic.

A young man connected to detective work looks back on a story where love, aging, fraud, and murder intertwine. The novel layers a fair-play mystery device with the bitterness of life and sharply overturns the reader's understanding.

Under the late-spring cherry leaves, the meaning of the visible world changes.

A linked mystery centered on young people drawn to strange deaths, where dark desires surface through cracks in everyday life.

A linked mystery centered on young people drawn to strange deaths, where dark desires surface through cracks in everyday life.

ミステリ・オペラ 宿命城殺人事件 by Masaki Yamada is known as a 本格ミステリ大賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.

ミステリ・オペラ 宿命城殺人事件 is an award-recognized work by Masaki Yamada.

Kochu no Tengoku is a formal mystery in which strange incidents gather around a woman who enjoys a quiet life and bonsai. It layers ordinary life, obsession, and private worlds of perception, combining puzzle structure with close observation of people.

Within a calm daily life, each person’s private paradise slowly opens its mouth.