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

Edition 11 (2024)

Long-form mysterySuspenseNew-writer award

Winners

4 people
二礼樹 grand prize

In a northern city after the Silver-Wing War, Osvaldo, a butcher at the members-only restaurant Ombrello, encounters a man claiming to be a vampire. Joined by the beautiful boy Luca and Everis, a former princess turned assassin, he is drawn into a dark world through the mystery of a man who had been frozen as food.

A mystery born from an encounter with a vampire leads a group of butchers racing through a postwar city toward a dangerous truth.

272 pages
vampiresa postwar citya members-only restaurantcriminal organizationshumanity
小石陽太 こいし ようた finalist

Yota Koishi's To Aru Yokushitsu kara no Dasshutsu was a finalist for the 11th Shincho Mystery Grand Award, not the award-winning work.

Seika Hibe ひべ せいか finalist

Seika Hibe's "The Gravity of Sin, or at the Bottom of a Box" was a shortlisted work for the 11th Shincho Mystery Grand Award, not the award-winning work.

長沼憲弘 ながぬま のりひろ finalist

Hibakari Toge was a shortlisted work for the 11th Shincho Mystery Grand Prize, not the prize-winning work.