Lunatic Retriever

 

Lunatic Retriever exploded onto the scene as the winner of the 2024 Mysteries! Newcomer Award, a work written by a grad student good enough to impress a panel of established pros.

Set on campus at Teito University on the day of a partial solar eclipse, Lunatic Retriever sees four college students - cool genius Nozomu Kubo, energetic gyaru Runa Ohashi, lovable jock Yuto Hirano, and laid back but future wary narrator Keisuke Noguchi - investigating the death of Haruka Yoshida, a fellow student who's as famous for being a published author as she is for being a frigid sociopath. Found in a taped room full of CO2 sandwiched between two tent poles, it seems like a clear case of suicide, but of course it can't be that simple. What they uncover is not only a brilliant locked room solution, but the life lesson of a story that's also About Something. The critics will never stop treating those like either-or options, no matter how many times authors pull it off...

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