書棚の番人

by Kei Aono, 碧野 圭

ベストセラー「書店ガール」シリーズの著者による、書店を舞台としたミステリー。書店員の椎野正和は、ある朝届いた積荷の中に、少年犯罪者の告白本を見つけて驚く。それは十七年前に女子中学生が惨殺された事件で、正和の同級生が起こしたものだった。しかも正和は共犯と疑われたのだ。書店業界が「売るべきか売らないべきか」と騒然とする中、その本を読んだ正和は、ある違和感を覚えるのだが……。出版・書店業界の裏事情を巧みに盛り込んだ、慟哭のミステリー。『書店員と二つの罪』を改題。

281 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 7, 2024

About the author

Kei Aono was born in 1959 in Nagoya, Japan and studied at Tokyo Art university. After starting her career at an anime magazine, she worked as an editor at a publishing company. In 2006 she made her fiction debut with The Reason I Won't Quit, and in 2014 Bookstore Girls won the Grand Prize in the "Book I want made into a movie" category at the Shizuoka Bookstore Awards. It went on to be adapted for television, sell 200,000 copies and lay the ground for six sequels.