The Decagon House Murders: Yukito Ayatsuji (Pushkin Vertigo)

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Murder At the Mansion of Strange Masks: the latest book in the Mansions series and it's still going strong.

Oct 28 NBA Star Rui Hachimura Gets Animated and Possibly Saves the World in New Crayon Shin-chan Episode His celebration of traditional whodunits plays with the mystery genre in a wonderfully self-referential way... With each new murder, the remaining members of the group must use their knowledge of the genre to find the killer and try to stay alive." — Esquire , The 50 Best Mysteries of All Time

Ayatsuji certainly has it planned out well and elaborately, and there's certainly a moment when readers find themselves nicely wrong-footed as the identity of the murderer is revealed.

She follows the monk, and just watches him info dump and piece everything together for the most part. Ayatsuji’s brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits… Every word counts, leading up to a jaw-dropping but logical reveal” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)Meanwhile on the mainland, other members of their group begin receiving mysterious letters, purportedly from the dead architect, accusing the group of murdering his daughter Chiori. The daughter, who was also amember of the mystery group, apparentlydied of alcohol poisoning at their New Year’s Eve party the previous year. One of the group’s former members, Kawaminami, takes it upon himself to investigate the letters, and enlists the help of Shimada, a friend of the murdered architect’s brother. As they look deeper into the letters, they start to investigate the circumstances surrounding the quadruple murder, and begin to see a connection between the events of the previous year and the group currently on the island. Kodansha USA publishes the series digitally in North America from August 17, 2021, [8] to November 29, 2022. [9] Volumes [ edit ] No.

As the students approach Tsunojima in a hired fishing boat, ‘the sunlight shining down turned the rippling waves to silver. The island lay ahead of them, wrapped in a misty veil of dust,’ its sheer, dark cliffs rising straight out of the sea, accessible by one small inlet. There is no electricity on the island, and no telephones, either. But if the whodunnit part is reasonably well done, the how-he-done-it -- painstakingly then spelled out -- is kind of a mess. One might add: 'apparently', to all of the above and much of the below -- predictably, not everything in the novel is as entirely clear-cut as it might (initially) seem.) Behold, the perfect escapist drug! If I could crush this book into a powder and snort it, I would.” — VultureThis was a twisted plot. We both follow the characters stranded on the island and those on the mainland trying to find out the meaning of some mysterious letters they’ve all received. As you might have already guessed out those on the island start dying one by one, and little clues are thrown for the reader to try to solve the murder (I didn’t). But he's curious about the note and its meaning, and begins to investigate -- first whether others from the group got similar messages (they did), and then what might be behind them.