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Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award かどかわはるきしょうせつしょう

Edition 7 (2015)

Long-form entertainment novels

Winners

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Confessions of Cinderella is a historical mystery about a beautiful woman calling herself Cinderella and a series of suspicious deaths among the nobility.

The widow Tina travels to the great city of Lutetia with her two daughters, drawing closer to the mystery of Cinderella and the unexplained deaths troubling high society.

294 pages
historical mysteryCinderellanoble societysuspicious deathsmother-daughter relationship
新美健 にいみ けん special award

Published as Meiji Sword Wolf Chronicle: The Saigo Assassination Order, this historical adventure novel is set in the early Meiji era.

As the Satsuma Rebellion erupts, Goro Fujita and Tsuneaki Murata are ordered to join a mission to rescue Saigo Takamori.

329 pages
Meiji RestorationSatsuma Rebellionassassination plotswordsmenhistorical adventure
刈間剛史 finalist

Tsuyoshi Karima's Ashidamari no Ie was a finalist for the seventh Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

本城美音子 finalist

Mineko Honjō's 1992-nen no Good Fellows was a finalist for the seventh Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.