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Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Grand Award このミステリーがすごい! たいしょう

Edition 4 (2005)

Mystery novelsBroadly defined mystery

Winners

2 people
Takeru Kaidou かいどう たける grand prize

Doctors and bureaucrats work to uncover the truth behind unexplained intraoperative deaths in a cardiac surgery team. It is a medical mystery that balances realism in the hospital setting with the pleasures of detection.

Behind the glory of the Batista procedure lies another face.

375 pages
medicinemysteryhospitalinternal investigationsurgery
Miiko Mizuta みずた みいこ special encouragement award

A murder clown appears at a class reunion on a remote island and attacks the attendees one after another. It is a survival horror story that fully exploits the unease of an isolated island.

The reunion turns into an island of terror when a murder clown bursts in.

253 pages
remote islandhorrorclass reunionserial murdersurvival