Koharu Ichikura, a first-year university student aspiring to become a manga artist, works part-time at a bakery called Nostimo in Toyonaka, Osaka. One day, her best friend abruptly cancels plans they had made together, prompting Koharu to use her sharp powers of observation to uncover the truth. A linked collection of five cozy mysteries set in and around a neighborhood bakery, featuring no deaths and a warm, slice-of-life atmosphere.

Mysteries layered like croissants, as exciting as curry bread!

A 200-year-old skeleton excavated in the Himalayas. When Nanase Yu, a graduate student specializing in genetic anthropology, conducts a DNA analysis, the results completely match those of his sister Aju, who went missing four years ago. Just as he is about to consult his supervisor Professor Ishimizaki about this inexplicable finding, the professor is murdered. The ancient skeleton is stolen and a member of the excavation team is attacked. As Yu pursues the truth behind his sister's disappearance and the skeleton's DNA, he is drawn into a massive conspiracy involving religious groups and pharmaceutical companies that could shake the very foundations of human history.

The compelling mystery and storytelling stand head and shoulders above the rest.

The 23rd Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Award Hidden Gem Selection. High school student Furukawa lives in the Nanakusa dormitory at Mikohama High School. Together with his curious and kind-hearted classmate Ninose, he encounters a series of everyday mysteries: an umbrella left at a laundromat after a typhoon, a club application signed by someone deceased, an ice-cream-wielding thief, and a time capsule hidden in the dormitory. As they solve these puzzles, Furukawa is gradually led to confront his own past in this coming-of-age mystery story collection.

An umbrella left at a laundromat after a typhoon -- through unraveling mysteries, Furukawa gradually confronts his own past.

Set in 16th-century Holy Roman Empire, former law professor Rosen encounters a witch trial while traveling. Convinced of the innocence of a girl named Ann accused of using sorcery to kill a watermill manager, Rosen challenges the witch trial with logic and legal reasoning. A legal mystery about the power of reason against superstition.

Prove the absence of a witch -- a 16th-century legal suspense where logic clashes with faith.