A medical suspense novel in which Hazuki, a virology researcher, investigates the kidnapping and murder of a child connected to her husband and approaches a conspiracy that could shake the medical world.

A family tragedy becomes a door into the darkness of medicine.

A practical essay on refusing to close down one's life with age. Work, affection, money, the body, and fear of death are gathered into brisk advice for later life.

Life can bloom at any age if one chooses to keep living actively.

This story centers on the anxiety of disappearance that lurks beside ordinary life, tracing the fear of someone slipping out of a community and the unstable memories left behind. Its folkloric title gives a modern setting an unresolved, uncanny aftertaste.

It is a story about searching for someone who has vanished, and about what the people left behind choose to believe.