Continuation of the cult intellectual mystery "Tokyo Zodiac". A unique puzzle about a tree - a serial killer. It is difficult to imagine something more nightmarish and frightening than what happened in the fall of 1984. This terrible incident on the Dark Hill in Yokohama shocked all of Japan... In the vicinity of Yokohama, on the Dark Hill of Kurayami, there stands an ancient tree - camphor laurel. Once there was a prison where criminals were often executed. Locals say that this land was so saturated with blood that the ancient laurel was nourished by death itself - and became... a cannibal. They can tell a terrible story about how 40 years ago the terribly mutilated body of a little girl was found in its crown. And from inside the tree, sometimes screams and crying are heard... People call this place cursed... When the detective and fortuneteller Kiyoshi Mitarai read in the newspaper that the body of a man who had died under extremely strange circumstances was found next to the laurel, he immediately took up the investigation. After all, such a strange thing had never happened in his practice. His friend, writer and artist Kazumi Ishioka, strongly doubts his success. How can you solve a crime in which otherworldly forces are involved? However, Mitarai believes in himself - and in his method...

“God of Mystery” - this is what Soji Shimada is called in Japan. Winner of the No. 1 literary award in Japan - “Japanese Detective Literature”. Member of the elite group of Japanese writers Red Circle Authors "The great Soji Shimada literally invented the entire subgenre of the 'logical riddle'..." - The Guardian "Shimada has a knack for combining absolutely fantastic crimes with logical and transparent solutions to these riddles - and is capable of baffling the most astute reader." – Publishers Weekly