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This book will make you internalize "ように/ような" grammar point in no time
It's a solid book overall. It's not only about mystery, there are other themes like human drama and work culture, which I like more than the mystery part. What I didn't like about this book is when it starts to reveal the culprit's motivation. It feels anti-climactic, one-dimensional, and lacks depth. Although to be fair, their reasoning makes sense to me and is explained further in the latter part of the book, but still the motivation left me unsatisfied and I think it can be better than that.
As for the difficulty, this is the hardest Japanese book I've read so far. It really tests your Japanese ability to the fullest. Heavy use of uncommon words and 4-6 descriptive sentences filled with idioms and N1/N2 grammar. This almost always happens every time the author tries to describe a scene or a state of emotion, very rarely do they use straightforward prose to describe something. It didn't shy away from 四字熟語 either, you will find a handful of them in this book. Here is an example sentence when the author tries to describe a change of facial expression:
I know the second one is technically not a 四字熟語 but still, it's a little snippet of what's to come. I would recommend this book if you want to challenge yourself, it's also perfect for mining into Anki or other SRS because of the heavy use of uncommon words and idioms.
*I want to give this book 3.5 but the site can't do that so I'm stuck with 4.