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Yokomizo Seishi Mystery & Horror Grand Award よこみぞせいしみすてりあんどほらーたいしょう

Edition 21 (2001)

MysteryHorror

Winners

2 people
川崎草志 grand prize

A suspense novel linking a fatal fall at a game company and a shooting in a hometown town through a curse-like 'long arm'.

A warped town and a curse-like chain connect the two crimes.

291 pages
local towngame companylinked crimescursesuspense
鳥飼否宇 excellent work

A fair-play mystery set in Bamboo Village, a closed community governed by Taoist thought, where a series of murders erupts.

Taoist ideas and a string of murders cast a strange shadow over the sealed village.

336 pages
sealed villageserial murderTaoist thoughtfair-play mysterylocal tradition