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Honkaku Mystery Award ほんかくみすてりたいしょう

Edition 24 (2024)

Novel divisionCriticism and research division

Winners

5 people
Yugo Aosaki あおざき ゆうご award

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.

352 pages
mysterypsychological battleschoolrules
白井智之 しらい ともゆき nominee

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.

384 pages
memoryincidentfragmentssuspense
Honobu Yonezawa よねざわ ほのぶ nominee

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.

280 pages
societyuneaserelationshipsmystery
Kie Hojo ほうじょう たかえ nominee

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.

320 pages
hotelcursed objectsthe uncannyfantasy
手代木正太郎 てしろぎ しょうたろう nominee

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.

416 pages
mansionpuzzle-solvinglogicmystery