Abstract

Author's first Bookstore Grand Prize nominee.

Usui, an intern from Hiroshima, comes to a hospital in Kanagawa for internship and meets Yukari, a woman suffering from a brain tumor. The two gradually develop a rapport.
When Usui returns to Hiroshima after completing his internship, he receives the news of Yukari's death.
Following Yukari's footsteps, Usui wanders around Yokohama.
And the shocking truth is revealed!

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.