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

Edition 15 (2024)

MysteryTranslated literature

Winners

3 people
小山内園子 おさない そのこ grand prize

A legendary female assassin in her mid-sixties, Hornclaw recognizes the effects of aging even as she pursues a target assigned by her organization. Set against Korean society, this noir novel explores age, violence, solitude, and survival.

A noir novel in which an aging legendary female assassin pursues a target while fighting for her own survival.

278 pages
Aging womanAssassinsKorean societyViolence and survivalSolitude
東野さやか ひがしの さやか readers prize

A gang that raided safe-deposit boxes vanished, leaving behind a mysterious body and a rat figurine. Three years later, as an international summit approaches, a person connected to it is murdered, and detective Washington Poe and analyst Tilly Bradshaw are ordered to investigate. As they follow clues linking the two crimes, a criminal scheme that threatens national security comes into view. The fourth Washington Poe novel.

Poe and Tilly pursue the connection between a robbery marked by a rat figurine and a murder tied to a summit.

736 pages
serial murderinternational summitnational securitycriminal investigationdetective partnership
加賀山卓朗 かがやま たくろう readers prize

London, 1930. Famed detective Rachel Savernake is shadowed by dark rumors. Jacob Flint, a journalist trying to expose her secrets, becomes entangled in baffling events, including a strange locked-room suicide and a death by fire during a stage performance. Is Rachel the culprit behind the connected crimes? The truth converges at Gallows Court.

Detective or devil? A journalist pursuing Rachel Savernake's secret is led to Gallows Court.

592 pages
1930s Londondetectivejournalistlocked roomGolden Age mystery