Mystery/Thriller -- 2 stars
Seven members of a university mystery club decide to spend a week on a private island where multiple murders took place the previous year. It doesn't take long for the club members to begin to die. They are the only ones on the island; one of them has to be the murderer, right? ----- Maybe it's the translation, but this short book's awkward and unnatural dialogue reads like a graphic novel. Advertised as a classic Japanese puzzle mystery, I admit it's not a style that is to my taste. The saving grace is the reveal of the puzzle which, unlike the rest of this repetitious and pointlessly drawn out story, is succinct and very clever. If you enjoy being left to your own devices to solve a mystery, you'll love this book. I'll be skipping the rest of the series.
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