Toshirō Aoyagi, an unmotivated Myline telephone-service salesman, proposes a haunted-house theme park for a town-revitalization contest, and the idea is accepted. Against a backdrop of depopulation, unemployment, illegal industrial-waste dumping, and a new religious movement, the project heads in an unexpected direction.

A mystery in which a haunted-house theme-park plan for local revitalization draws in the anxieties and desires of a rural community.

Emi Tobe, who works for a food company, learns that her friend, a tour conductor, has died under mysterious circumstances while she is developing an organic-rice product. As a strange disease emerges and disturbing deaths follow, she closes in on a case involving food and life science.

An inquiry that begins with an organic-rice project leads to a friend's mysterious death and a baffling disease that unsettles society.

Ai Koso Subete, to Orokamono wa Itta is a mystery novel in which Kuze learns that his son Keita, from whom he has been separated for seven years, has been kidnapped. When his former wife disappears before the case is resolved, he pursues both her whereabouts and the truth, while a renewed life with his son raises questions of family and blood ties.

After rescuing his kidnapped son, Kuze searches for his missing former wife and the truth behind the crime while beginning to live with his son again.