Enjoyed this novel. Listening to it as an audiobook was a little bit of a struggle at times due to the mystery elements (which are always tricky for me in Japanese novels as they involve misdirection, details, etc.) but the scenes with the protagonist and the new friends he makes after moving from Tokyo to "Hayabusa" (a fictional town in the Japanese countryside) through joining a volunteer fire brigade (they seem to spend most of their time together drinking...) were wonderful.