NATIONAL BESTSELLER OF JAPAN FROM THE WINNER OF THE HONKAKU PRIZE 2023. A NOVEL WHICH IN JAPAN IS ROUGH WITH THE CULT HONKAKU “TOKYO ZODIAC” AND “THE HOUSE OF CROVE WALLS” BY SOJI SHIMADA. “THE HOUSE OF THE SETTING SUN” by the famous detective author Yudz ana Takarada – extremely a mysterious mansion with many secret rooms. This place is literally filled with strange mechanisms. Once they served for intellectual games of the writer, but now he is bedridden and can barely think. A forest fire locked a very motley group in Takarada’s house. People found themselves cut off from the world by a ring of fire. To escape, they must find a secret passage hidden somewhere in the building. However, the search is interrupted by a shocking event - the writer's granddaughter... is crushed by the intricate suspended ceiling of one of the rooms. There are two people in the company with outstanding deductive abilities. Asukai Hikaru, a former detective, believes that it was an accident - the house itself killed the girl. Teruyoshi Katsuragi is a rookie detective, but he is sure that the killer is one of them. In the face of imminent death in the fire, these two begin a battle of wits... Tatsumi Atsukawa holds the record - he was among the top ten ratings of action-packed literature in his homeland for five years in a row. In the Land of the Rising Sun, he was declared one of the detective authors whose new releases readers are most looking forward to.