Daikarasu No Naku Fuyu / Original Title: Raven Black (Hajime Motosuiri Bunko)

[Machine Translation] New Year's Day on the island of Shetland. A dark-haired girl who visited a lonely old man at night was found dead on a snowfield four mornings later. Strangled by a bright red scarf. In a small town where everyone knows each other, who killed her and why? What strange similarities emerge from Inspector Perez's investigation with the disappearance of the girl eight years earlier? The winner of the CWA Best Long Story Award, this novel challenges readers with its detailed foreshadowing and daring tricks by a leading figure of the modern British novelist school.

新年を迎えたシェトランド島。孤独な老人を夜に訪れた黒髪の少女は、四日後の朝、雪原で死んでいた。真っ赤なマフラーで首を絞められて。顔見知りばかりの小さな町で、誰が、なぜ彼女を殺したのか。ペレス警部の捜査で浮かびあがる、八年前の少女失踪事件との奇妙な共通項とは?現代英国本格派の旗手が緻密な伏線と大胆なトリックで読者に挑戦する、CWA最優秀長篇賞受賞作。