Do You Want to Be a Great Detective? Come on Quickly!

The annual recommended book of British crime novels, the latest work of Anthony Horowitz, author of "The Magpie Murders"! A quiet island where no murder has ever occurred, two sudden and brutal murders, and twelve suspects with their own agendas! Alderney is an isolated island where private detectives and crime fiction writers are invited to participate in a literary festival to promote their new books. But not long after, the two discovered that this seemingly peaceful island hid a strong malicious intent: a cable connecting Britain and France would pass through the island. It would dig up the cemetery on the island, disturb the souls of the dead who were murdered during the Nazi period, and turn the island residents against each other, making the entire island restless. And the authors who participated in the literary festival seemed to have unknown pasts... When the patron of the literary festival was brutally murdered, the island was completely sealed off. The murderer is still on the island, and the second murder is about to happen...

A murder broke out on the streets of Tokyo. Based on on-site investigation and witness testimony, the police arrested the suspect Nobuo Saeki and sentenced the young man to nine years in prison. Soon, Saeki died of illness in prison. A year later, Saeki's father plundered seven witnesses related to the case to an isolated island. He carefully built a street scene of the crime scene to verify the authenticity of the testimony one by one. Under the witness of the detective Totsukawa who was brought to the island together, the case was restored bit by bit, and there seemed to be no sign of overturning the case until a witness was suddenly killed...

Guests gathered on a remote island off the coast of Ireland to celebrate a grand wedding. The groom, Will, is a popular TV star, handsome and charming; the bride, Jules, is an online magazine publisher, smart and ambitious. Everything in the wedding was carefully planned - a remote location, designer clothes, luxurious cakes, fine whiskey... The scene was already fully decorated, and a group of old friends gathered together again. The champagne was opened and the feast began. It was supposed to be a day of joy until a body was discovered that marked the perfect crime. Behind the illusion of joy lies an ulterior secret. Hatred and jealousy are in the air. The murderer could be anyone or everyone. The only thing that is certain is that one of the guests will not be able to leave the island alive...

Continuing the plot of the previous work "The Magpie Murders", editor Susan Ryland escaped death and moved to a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend to run a family hotel on the island. But life has turned from the beauty in her imagination into a mess in reality - everything in the hotel on the island makes her exhausted. Susan began to miss her career as a publisher in London, even though her publishing career had put her in mortal danger. One day, two unexpected guests arrived, breaking Susan's peaceful and boring life. A couple from England approached her about a murder that had occurred in the hotel they owned on the day of their daughter Cecily's wedding. Susan couldn't help but be fascinated by it. They claimed that Cecily disappeared mysteriously a few hours after reading "Atticus Pound Comes to Solve the Case" (a crime novel written by Alan Conway and edited and published by Susan a few years ago). In order to save Cecily, Susan knows she must return to London and find out the truth. Opening "Atticus Pound to Solve the Case" again, Susan seemed to see the ghost of Alan Conway appearing in front of her. The murder in the hotel and the mystery of Cecily's disappearance must be hidden in this novel...

The quiet mountains and forests of Kamakura hide a mysterious building designed by Nakamura Seiji - the Clock Museum. There are hundreds of different clocks in the museum, pointing to the same time in an incredible way and traveling at the same speed; outside the museum stands a clock tower without hands, and its bell has never sounded. Ten years ago, the most beloved daughter of the owner Gu E Lundian died unfortunately, followed by the deaths of six other related figures in the Gu E family. After that, under the silent clock tower, the ghost of a beautiful girl appeared, wandering in the quiet forest... Ten years later, "CHAOS" magazine, which is famous for focusing on supernatural phenomena, in order to find out the truth about the undead, together with several members of W University's Paranormal Phenomenon Research Society and a psychic, entered the strange clock museum. However, they did not expect that the three-day seance session, which was isolated from the outside world, would turn into a moment of crazy killing...

After dating him, they all disappeared... Fuuta, who was working as a pet care worker, learned that his ex-girlfriend Misaki passed away at a young age. While feeling sad, he also remembered what happened when he dated his other two ex-girlfriends, Ran and Emiri. But when Fuuta tried to contact them, he discovered that Ran and Emiri had also disappeared... After in-depth investigation, Fuuta discovered that all traces of their existence, including their friends, residences, schools, etc., Had disappeared. What is going on? Shimada Shoji selects the winning work of the 11th Fukuyama Mystery Literature Newcomer Award as a new concept of "21st century original style". An unforgettable motive and a tearful ending beyond imagination!