One Eyed Girl by Maya Yutaka is an okay-ish traditional locked-room murder mystery, the writing and the setting is nice enough to keep me turning pages, but the final plot twists and explanation of *why* and *how* the murder happened really don't work for me. I mean, logically speaking the explanation is a passable one, but on the levels of common sense and emotion, it isn't quite passable.
Beats me why this could have won so many awards. The detective work was flimsy, the raison d'etre ridiculous, and the translation was clumsy. Ok the last thing is separate, but it shouldn't be to the extent that you need to regularly re-read to find out who was actually talking.....
Initially it did evoke feelings of Yokomizo's Kindaichi series in terms of background, but the extremely bloated number of characters distracted the storyline by 1/3 of the book.