Abstract

Their night doesn't end...

A collision between a foreign car and a minicar occurs at an intersection late at night. The driver of the foreign car reports the accident. The minicar is crushed like a rolled up piece of paper, and the driver is killed. It is thought that the cause was a ignoring of traffic signals, but there are no witnesses, and the passenger in the foreign car claims that the other party was at fault. Meanwhile, the dead driver's high school-aged sister, who miraculously escaped unscathed, was riding in the back seat of the car, but she was blind. However, she proves her brother's innocence in an amazing way ("Angel's Ears").

A series of suspense stories that vividly depict the complex human drama swirling behind the traffic accidents that occur day and night, and the traffic police officers who do their best to find out the cause! A special edition that includes the author's own commentary, "Afterword for the First Time in Ten Years."

Author’s Information

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1958.
Debuted in 1985 by winning the 31st Edogawa Rampo Prize with "Hokago (After School)".

Received the 52nd Japan Mystery Writers Association Award in 1999 for "Himitsu (Secret)", the 134th Naoki Prize and the 6th Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize in 2006 for "The Devotion of Suspect X," the 7th Chuo Koron Literary Prize in 2012 for "The Miracles of the Namiya General Store," the 26th Shibata Renzaburo Award in 2013 for "Mugenbana (Dreamy Flowers", and the 48th Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Prize in 2014 for "The Final Curtain". Also has numerous other awards.

Passionate about snowboarding, with works set on the slopes like "Silver Jack (Silver Hijack)", "Shippu Rondo (Gale Rondo)", "Koi no Gondola (Love Gondola)" and "Setsuen Chase (Chase in the Snow)".

Authored many books including "The Camphor Tree’s Guard (Kusunoki no Bannin)", "Majo to sugoshita Shichinichikann (Seven Days Spent with a Witch)", "Anata ga dareka wo koroshita (You Killed Someone)" and "Black Showman to kakuseisuru onnatachi (The Awakening Women with the Black Showman)".