Japanese Literary Awards

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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 6 (2007)

Mystery novelsBroadly defined mystery

Winners

3 people
Takumi Tsukasa たくみ つかさ grand prize

A chef in Kobe meets a critic with extraordinary taste and gets pulled into a plot that shakes the gourmet world. It is an unusual mystery where culinary flair and criminal intrigue coexist.

Behind gourmet culture, a dangerous plan begins to move.

343 pages
cookingcrimegourmet worldnoirscheme
桂修司 かつら しゅうじ excellence award

A series of mysterious deaths in a northern prison triggers a story in which modern events overlap with the history of Hokkaido’s Meiji-era development, widening the circle of a curse. It is a richly textured historical-fantasy horror novel.

Deaths bound by chains echo the darkness of the Meiji era.

375 pages
historical fantasyhorrorprisonHokkaidocurse
Fuko Morikawa もりかわ ふうこ dark horse

A girl who lost her mother in an accident becomes entangled in an unsettling series of events with her father and a woman named Mizuno. It is a suspense novel suffused with loss and flight.

Night begins with no way out, while the shadow of one hundred million yen hangs over everyone.

383 pages
familydisappearanceescapecrimesuspense