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Translated Mystery Grand Award ほんやくミステリーたいしょう

Edition 13 (2022)

MysteryTranslated literature

Winners

2 people
舩山むつみ ふなやま むつみ grand prize

A Chinese-language hard-boiled novel set in surveillance-saturated Taipei, following a depressed playwright and university professor, Wu Cheng, as he poses as a private detective and hunts a serial killer to clear his name.

From the backstreets of Taipei, a detective pursues the true killer.

560 pages
hard-boiledTaiwandetectiveserial murdertranslated mystery
服部京子 はっとり きょうこ readers prize

High school student Pip uses a school research project to get closer to the truth behind a local disappearance, in a mystery that balances momentum with tension.

A school project becomes the key to a hidden truth.

581 pages
mysteryhigh schooldisappearanceinvestigationtruth