Raijin (Shincho Bunko)

[Machine Translation] If lightning had not struck that day, he would not have committed the crime. A threatening phone call struck Yukito Fujiwara, who runs a small restaurant in Saitama. The day after the caller shows up at the restaurant, he receives a proposal from his daughter, Yumi, to go away. The village of Hanetagami in Niigata Prefecture - the hometown of Yukito and his older sister Asami - was a place where painful memories were sealed away. The sudden death of their mother and the poisoning of a prominent figure in the village. When Yukito and his friends visit the village, the horrific past is awakened... This is a mystery of the highest quality that continues to astonish until the very last line.

あの日、雷が落ちなければ、罪を犯すことはなかった―。埼玉で小料理屋を営む藤原幸人を襲った脅迫電話。電話の主が店に現れた翌日、娘の夕見から遠出の提案を受ける。新潟県羽田上村―幸人と姉・亜沙実の故郷であり、痛ましい記憶を封じ込めた地だった。母の急死と村の有力者の毒殺事件。幸人らが村を訪れると、凄惨な過去が目を醒まし...。最後の一行まで最上級の驚愕が続くミステリ。