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Japan Mystery Literature Grand Prize Newcomer Award にほんミステリーぶんがくたいしょうしんじんしょう

Edition 20 (2016)

MysteryNewcomer Award

Winners

1 people
戸南浩平 となん こうへい award

In the early Meiji era, Takayuki Okui, a master of iaijutsu with a prosthetic left leg, wanders in pursuit of the man who killed his friend. Learning that this enemy lies behind a series of murders, Okui closes in on the truth.

A historical mystery in which a master swordsman with a prosthetic leg pursues his friend's killer and the truth behind serial murders.

326 pages
Early Meiji eraSwordsman with a prosthetic legRevengeSerial murdersThe life of former samurai