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 10 (2011)

Mystery novelsBroadly defined mystery

Winners

6 people
Kazuhiro Hosaka ほさか かずひろ grand prize

A lawyer-narrator confronts a mother-and-child murder case and a medical malpractice case while questioning the uneasy relationship between the courts and prosecutors in this courtroom mystery.

A lawyer-detective cuts through the collusion between law and prosecution.

381 pages
courtroomjustice systemlawyermedical malpracticemystery
Hitsuji Tomoi ともい ひつじ excellence award

A middle-school boy decides to sue his father in civil court after suspecting him of killing the family dog, pursuing the truth behind a family rupture.

A boy takes his own father to court.

308 pages
familycourtroomanimal crueltycoming-of-agetruth
Takuma Okazaki おかざき たくま dark horse

Set in Kyoto's coffee shop Talleyran, this linked mystery follows barista Misa Kirima as she solves everyday mysteries with sharp observation.

A barista whose hobby is solving mysteries.

365 pages
everyday mysterycoffee shopKyotobaristacoming-of-age
Jun Yagaki やぎき じゅん dark horse

In a mountain village in Aomori, a voyeuristic detective with compulsive peeking tendencies tackles a series of murders at the snowbound Kagome-so inn.

A detective who cannot help but peek.

408 pages
rural villagetabooserial murdervoyeurismmystery
Kotaro Horiuchi ほりうち こたろう dark horse

A psycho-suspense novel about a serial killer called 'Mori no Kuma-san' who publicly targets villains exposed on the internet.

A killer arrives while singing a nursery rhyme.

317 pages
serial killerinternet crimevigilantismsuspensenursery rhyme
Masahiro Shinohara しのはら まさひろ dark horse

A school mystery in which a school nurse and an art teacher investigate the culprit behind a grotesque murder painting displayed in a high school hallway.

Leave the school case to the nurse.

367 pages
schoolteacherartcrime at schoolmystery