Kubi Kimura No Satsujin Kadokawa Bunko O-60-1 (Kadokawa Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Washijiri Village is located in Iwate Prefecture. A long-awaited doctor was assigned to the village, which had been without a doctor for a long time. Soon after, he was attacked by an unknown person and never returned. Takimoto was newly appointed to replace him, who was rumored to have been attacked by a giant bear. However, soon after his arrival, he encounters a series of murders. In this land bound by the haunting of their ancestors, is it a bear that attacks them, or -? This debut novel, which won the Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Grand Prize and was acclaimed by many as the birth of 21st century Yokomizo Seishi, is now available in a long-awaited paperback edition.

岩手県にある鷲尻村。長く無医村状態が続いた当地に、待望の医師が赴任した。その直後、彼は何者かに襲われ帰らぬ人となった。巨熊に襲われたと噂される彼の代わりに新たに赴任した滝本。だが、着任早々、彼は連続殺人事件に遭遇することになる。先祖の祟りに縛られたこの地で、彼らを襲うのは熊なのか、それとも-?横溝正史ミステリ大賞を受賞し、21世紀の横溝正史が誕生と各方面から絶賛されたデビュー作、待望の文庫化。