放課後ミステリクラブ 1金魚の泳ぐプール事件

Adorable children's mystery novel

I absolutely loved this book.

Language-wise, it was super approachable. There is a lot of repetition and the mystery is simple. I felt that each character was distinct, so it was easy to keep track of who was who. The physical copy also has lots of illustrations, so it is not very text-dense compared to other children's novels. I would recommend this as a first book for beginners trying to read prose.

Story-wise, I just found this book so cute and adorable. The author clearly loves mystery n

An elementary (school) mystery

In 放課後ミステリクラブ we follow three school friends as they try to solve the mystery of "who dumped a whole bunch of goldfish in the school pool". The stakes are not high, granted, but I thought it was a charming book; the characters are all fairly distinct (with the exception of the narrator, maybe) and I thought the solution was a nice one.

Since I just listened to the audio and did not refer to the text, I can't comment on how often kanji vs. kana was used, and how much furigana there was. I can s