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MediaWorks Bunko Award めでぃあわーくすぶんこしょう

Edition 10 (2018)

General literature

Winners

2 people
村谷由香里 むらたに ゆかり award

Set in a boarding house where ghosts appear, this story uses meals and human connection to soften wounded hearts. A kind but easily frightened protagonist and memories tied to food create a warm aftertaste.

A last wished-for dish quietly connects the living and the dead.

304 pages
ghostsmealsboarding househealing
吹井賢 ふきい けん award

A suspense novel in which a secret Cabinet Intelligence unit and a university student are drawn into an abnormal case after a classified file disappears. It opens a series built on psychological games and unusual investigations.

Impossible cases are cornered through dangerous battles of wits.

288 pages
special investigationspsychological gamesstate secretsparanormal suspense