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 13 (2014)

Mystery novelsBroadly defined mystery

Winners

5 people
降田天 ふるた てん grand prize

A school mystery centered on the clash between Maki, who reigns as the classroom queen, and Erika, the transfer student who threatens her position.

The queen never comes back.

317 pages
schoolsocial hierarchygirlspower struggletwist
辻堂ゆめ つじどうゆめ excellence award

A suspense novel in which a popular singer wakes up with no memory and discovers that the world believes she has died.

Why is my death on the news?

491 pages
amnesiaentertainment industryidentitydeath mysterysuspense
神家正成 excellence award

A PKO mystery set in a South Sudan camp, where a near-retirement warrant officer and a young sergeant investigate a string of thefts and missing ammunition.

Forty-two rifle rounds vanished from a locked space.

391 pages
Self-Defense ForcesSouth SudanPKOtheftmystery
山本巧次 やまもと こうじ dark horse

A historical mystery in which an ex-OL living between Edo and the present day uses modern science to solve crimes.

Scientific detection in Edo, with a double life.

414 pages
Edoforensic sciencehistorical mysterydouble lifeinvestigation
加藤鉄児 dark horse

A black-comedy action mystery in which assassins compete over the murder of a mayoral candidate.

The assassins' mayoral election begins.

367 pages
assassinsmayoral electionblack comedycompetitionsuspense