Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Grand Award このミステリーがすごい! たいしょう
Edition 12 (2013)
Winners
4 peopleA police mystery in which Ayaka Goma, nicknamed the 'calculator woman' for her obsession with numbers, is put in charge of a bank hostage crisis.
A special order lands on the calculator woman.
A social thriller in which a man protesting youth burdens and fiscal deficits becomes entangled in the kidnapping of a former prime minister's grandson and a ransom demand of one quadrillion yen.
The demand: a rewrite of the national debt, or one quadrillion yen.
An impossible-crime mystery in which a present-day boy's death appears linked to a case from 16 years earlier, challenging a seemingly airtight alibi.
Was the killer already in prison?
A thief mystery in which four childhood friends, now split between the police and burglary, reunite in their hometown and pursue the truth behind a death.
Even a thief can solve a mystery.