九孔之罠

死相学探偵 #7

by Shinzō Mitsuda, 三津田信三, 莫秦 (Translator)

超能力者を極秘で養成するダークマター研究所。そこでは、経費削減のため、成長が見込めない「年長組」の一部リストラが囁かれていた。そんな中、「年長組」の１人・沙紅螺が帰宅中、背後に現れた不気味な黒い影に追われる事件が発生。依頼を受けた俊一郎は、黒術師に唆された研究所関係者の仕業と考え、黒捜課の曲矢刑事らと警戒態勢を敷く。だが、なぜか新恒警部の姿が見えず、俊一郎は不安になる。待望のシリーズ第７弾！

272 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2019

About the author

See 三津田 信三 (Japanese)、 三津田信三 (Traditional Chinese).

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Trap of Nine Holes (it's my own translation and it's no good, sorry!) is the 7th novel of Shinzo Mitsuda's Detective of the Omens of Death series.

Premise: The Detective of the Omens of Death (it's my own translation, maybe there will be an official English translation later on), is a 20 years old young man who has a rare ability to see the Omens of Death from other people and foretell their death. During his childhood his ability made him a freak in the eyes of almost everyone around him, but the Detective did his best to deal with this gloomy psychic ability, and living as normal a life as he could.

This time his client is a young woman who has an ability to predict future events, when she comes to the Detective of the Omens of Death, the latter sees a gruesome death awaiting the young woman, with blood everywhere.

This time, I only had a vague feeling about how the story will end, so in the end(the first two murdered victims were faking their own death with the help of their own psychic powers in order to trick the killer into believing his curse is working well. I would have been tricked if the Detective's client isn't the first one to 'die') but I have no idea how he/she/they had managed all these. So again I accept defeat, although in the 3/4 of the story, some of the MCs start acting really inorganically to a point I can totally sense something is up, so, 4.2 stars only.