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Shincho Mystery Grand Prize しんちょうミステリーたいしょう

Edition 9 (2022)

Long-form mysterySuspenseNew-writer award

Winners

4 people
寺嶌曜 grand prize

A police novel in which an officer who can see the past with her right eye pursues the truth behind a three-year-old accident and an unsolved family murder case.

What her right eye reveals from three years ago opens the door to the case.

368 pages
police novelsupernatural abilityunsolved casepursuit
Norio Gojo finalist

A closed-circle mystery set in an afterlife mansion where six memoryless dead people try to uncover the truth of their deaths.

Welcome to the heavenly mansion, where no one knows how they died.

272 pages
closed-circle mysteryafterlifeamnesiamansion mystery
和居ナラブ finalist

A submission by Wagoi Narabu recorded as a finalist for the ninth Shincho Mystery Grand Prize.

A finalist for the ninth Shincho Mystery Grand Prize.

Shincho Mystery Grand Prizefinalistsubmission
笹木嬰児 finalist

A submission by Sasaki Eiji recorded as a finalist for the ninth Shincho Mystery Grand Prize.

A finalist for the ninth Shincho Mystery Grand Prize.

Shincho Mystery Grand Prizefinalistsubmission