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Suntory Mystery Award さんとりーみすてりーたいしょう

Edition 20 (2003)

MysteryNew writer award

Winners

3 people
Junichi Nakano なかの じゅんいち grand prize

This mystery follows Takuto, who works at a cabaret club in Shinjuku, as he investigates a stalking incident and a murder and meets Karin, a woman with the ability to glimpse the near future. It is a new-generation crime novel that overlays the atmosphere of the city at night with the unease of psychic ability.

In nighttime Shinjuku, a girl's warning about the future begins to move the case forward.

315 pages
mysteryShinjukuprecognitionyouth
鈴木凛太朗 すずき りんたろう readers prize

Invisible Giant Bird is a mystery novel that received the Readers' Prize in the final Suntory Mystery Award. It is remembered through its award history, with little evidence of a later book publication.

An unpublished Readers' Prize work from the final Suntory Mystery Award.

mysteryunpublished award workreaders' prize
藤森益弘 ふじもり ますひろ excellent work award

Spring Fortress is Masuhiro Fujimori's novel set around an advertising production company. Selected for an excellence award at the Suntory Mystery Award, it is read less as a puzzle-driven mystery than as a story of work, love, and unsettled middle-age feeling.

Against the background of advertising work, the novel follows a mystery and a set of emotions as they gradually unfold in everyday life.

404 pages
advertising industryromancemiddle-age sentimenteveryday mystery