Abstract

8th place in the Bookstore Grand Prize in 2022. Runner-up in the unlimited listening category of the Audiobook Award 2023, sponsored by audiobook.jp.

In a deep snowy forest, brilliantly shining, a tower of glass. At the call of a wealthy man who loves mysteries, a detective, a psychic, a novelist, a cook, and other guests are invited.
One after another, tragedies occur. The owner of the house is poisoned, a fire breaks out in the dining room, and bloodied bodies are found. The mystery is pursued by the famous detective, Tsukiyo Aoi, and the doctor, Yuma Ichijo.

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Author’s Information

Born in 1978 in Okinawa, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo. Graduated from The Jikei University School of Medicine and a board-certified physician of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine.
In 2011, won the 4th Shimada Shoji's Bara no Machi Fukuyama Mystery Literature Newcomer Award for "Raison d'etre"; in 2012, made his debut with "Who is the Blade for" (published in 2007 as "Raison d'etre"); in 2003, "Masked Ward" won the Keibundo Grand Prize. Nominated for the Honya Taisho Award five times for his novels "Embracing Her Collapsing Brain", "Hitotsumugi no Te", "Mugen no i (1 & 2)", "Murder in the Glass Tower", and "Houkago Mystery Club 1: Goldfish Swimming Pool Incident".
His signature work, the "Takao Ameku" series, has garnered overwhelming support from a wide range of generations. He has other many books, including "How to Keep a Gentle Shinigami", "Jikan Fuu", "Real Face", "Kikai-jikake no Taiyo", "Inori no Karte", and "Tonari no Nurse Aide".
He is one of the most popular mystery writers today.