The Strange House

The floor plan of a house piques a young author’s curiosity and presents him with seemingly unsolvable puzzles: Why is there this inexplicable room with no doors? Why, of all places, is the children’s room in the middle of the flat windowless and accessible only via a double-locked entrance? What happened there? Is it a case of child abuse, or is it the setting for the perfect crime? Then, suddenly, people go missing and bodies are found. Together with the architect Kurihara, Yanaoka sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery. Uketsu and Kyo Ayano manage to build a gripping and almost unbearable tension, repeatedly leading readers down the wrong track. With the help of new floor plans and a suspicious family, the protagonists slowly but surely uncover a sinister superstition. And the result is anything but reassuring. Once you’ve started, it’s impossible to put down the five-part series “The Strange House”.