Killer House in the Ring of Fire

A Japanese national bestseller by the 2023 Honkaku Award winner.A novel that in Japan is ranked alongside the cult honkaku novels "Tokyo Zodiac" and "The House of Crooked Walls" by Soji Shimada."The House of the Setting Sun" by the famous mystery writer Yuzan Takarada is an extremely mysterious mansion with many secret rooms. The place is literally riddled with strange mechanisms. Once they served for the writer's intellectual games, but now he is bedridden and barely coherent.A forest fire trapped a very diverse group of people in Takarada's house. The people found themselves cut off from the world by a ring of fire. To escape, they must find a secret passage hidden somewhere in the building. However, the search is interrupted by a shocking event - the writer's granddaughter... crushed by the elaborate suspended ceiling of one of the rooms.There are two people with outstanding deductive abilities in the group. Asukai Hikaru, a former detective, believes that this is an accident - the girl was killed by the house itself. Teruyoshi Katsuragi - a rookie detective, however, he is sure: the killer is one of them. In the face of inevitable death in the fire, these two begin a battle of wits...Tatsumi Atsukawa holds a record - he ranked in the top dozens of the thriller literature rankings in his homeland for five years in a row. In the Land of the Rising Sun, he was declared one of the mystery authors whose new releases readers look forward to the most.