Kansatsu I Asagao [First Part] (Fusosha Bunko)

[Machine Translation] One day, the Koun University forensic autopsy room where new forensic scientist Asagao Mangi works was visited by Taira, the father of a detective who had just been transferred to the Nogeyama Police Station in the area of his jurisdiction, requesting an autopsy of a female corpse. The body was found in a warehouse, but the results suggest that it was drowned. Asagao earnestly faces the body, and Taira gets closer to solving the case by locating the site where the woman was murdered and thoroughly investigating the remains. As they spend their days pursuing the truth revealed by the corpse, the two cannot forget their mother who went missing in the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.... Various stories intersect in this forensic drama.

ある日、新米法医学者・万木朝顔が勤務する興雲大学法医解剖室に、管轄エリア内の野毛山署に異動したばかりの刑事の父、平が女性の遺体の解剖依頼に訪れた。発見されたのは倉庫だったが、溺死と思しき結果が出る。朝顔は真摯に遺体と向き合い、平は女性が殺された現場を突き止め遺留品捜査を徹底することで、事件解決へと近づいていく―。遺体から見えてくる真実を追究する日々を送りながらも、二人は2011年に起こった東日本大震災で行方不明になった母を忘れられないでいた...。さまざまな物語が交錯する法医学ドラマ。