失われた貌

失われた貌

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Details
Author 櫻田智也 (さくらだ ともや) · Tomoya Sakurada
Language Japanese
Format Novel
Published 2025
Pages 304
Read 2026-06-25 → 2026-06-30
Finished ★★★★★

Review

★★★★★

Now I understand why this book has been ranked first on このミステリーがすごい!, ミステリが読みたい! and 週刊文春ミステリーベスト10,
The book was really great, and it’s right up my alley as police procedurals are my favourite sub-genre. I also liked that the story is not focused on the main police detective but on the case. The plot is really good, the case is very complex, elements that seemed unrelated at first turn out to be more important that they looked, the end is excellent, but most of all, it’s heavily focused on characters, their motives and how they’re dealing with the situations they’ve fallen into.


Updates

100%

Finished! Last two chapters were very short.

91%

Ended up reading another chapter, the plot is incredibly good! :sparkle:
There are two chapters left, I’m keeping them for tomorrow.

79%

Finished chapter 5. I say it after every chapter, but wow this book is so so good!! This chapter was the best so far!

66%

Finished chapter 4, wow this book is really great. Best police procedural I’ve read in a while. This chapter in particular had decisive elements, it’s very suspenseful!

49%

Finished chapter 3, halfway through already!
I like that each chapter is one day, and we really follow the characters through the whole day. Given that I’m reading one chapter per day, it feels like the story is unfolding in real time.

32%

I finished the second chapter… this book is really great!! An excellent police procedural so far, the case seems really complex, I love it!

13%

I read the first chapter! Loved it, looks like a good police procedural!

Characters

七月六日 あるはずの光
未咲
みさきMisaki
Hino’s wife
緒方
おがたOgata
Section Chief, First Investigation Division, Criminal Investigation Department
早見
はやみHayami
Ex-CEO of ハヤ宅
剣菱
けんびし
Yagi’s lawyer
中山大哉
なかやま だいやNakayama Daiya
Schoolboy who got spoken to by a man
白川清
しらかわ きよしShirakawa Kiyoshi
Victim of the Komane case, owner of the apartment.
八木辰夫
やぎ たつおYagi Tatsuo
Lives in the apartment, main suspect.
柿本
かきもとKakimoto
Police officer from Komane
幸田みつ子
こうだ みつこKoda Mitsuko
Representative of カラン, a NPO that helps former convicts.
小沼憲
おぬま けんOnuma Ken
Disappeared 10 years ago
小沼隼斗
おぬま はやとOnuma Hayato
Ken’s son, 9.
小沼久美
おぬま くみOnuma Kumi
Ken’s wife, knows Kyoko
日野雪彦
ひの ゆきひこHino Yukihiko
41, Investigation Section Chief at the Himekami police station
入江文乃
いりえ あやのIrie Ayano
29, detective sergeant.
佐竹亘
さたけ わたるSatake Wataru
33, office clerk at a wholesale company.
鷹宮
たかみやTakamiya
47, Medical Examiner, Forensic science division, criminal investigation department, prefectural headquarters.
羽幌
はぼろ
Inspector, Chief of Himekami station’s community safety division.
上村杏子
うえむら きょうこUemura Kyoko
Wrote the complaint in the 北光ウィークリー
辻晴一
つじ せいいちTsuji Seiichi
39, arrested for killing his wife
加奈
かなKana
37, Seiichi’s wife