Abstract

Thirty years have passed since the "simultaneous kidnapping of two children" occurred in 1991 in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Monden, a reporter for the Dainichi Shimbun newspaper who was in charge of police at the time, learns about the present life of the boy victim of the kidnapping case when an old acquaintance, a detective, dies in 2021.
He was in the limelight as an up-and-coming painter, but he revealed nothing about the background of the incident at the time.
Monden, seeking the truth about the case that took a bizarre turn, re-investigated the case and came across a certain realistic painter....
This is an authentic social mystery with a sense of realism from start to finish, published by the author, a former newspaper reporter.

Author’s Information

Born in 1979. After graduating from university, he joined the Kobe Shimbun Company.
He made his debut as a writer in 2011 with "Alpha on the Board" and became a full-time writer the following year.
His works on film include "The voice of a guilty person" and "Fangs of trompe l'oeil" (film adaptation),
Alpha on the Board" and "Skewed ripples" (made into TV dramas).