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A series of scattered ghost stories that seem to have nothing in common intrigue a group of police officers, who decide to investigate them in their free time.
The book starts with fragments of unrelated incidents from different points of view. Gradually we start to recognize recurring characters and draw connections between some of the various accounts, but the full picture is only formed at the very end of the book.
While I usually enjoy multiple narrators and different points of view in books, this one didn't completely satisfy me. There was a gradual unveiling of clues, and the reader was allowed to connect some of the dots, but I felt I never got to really know any of the various characters. Apparently one character that makes a guest appearance in this book (a young genius Go player) is the main character in other books by this author, and at least one other character has also appeared in another book of his. The book is not officially part of any series though. With all characters feeling like superficial acquaintances at best, there was no strong emotional involvement in the plot. The mystery was well enough crafted, but in the end there wasn't enough tension or atmosphere to make this a memorable book for me.
Language-wise it was pretty straightforward, with the exception of a chapter that went into the history of the place and had a lot of shogun-related vocabulary, and another that discussed old articles (from as far back as the beginning of the 20th century), complete with obscure vocabulary, kanji, and even kana of the time. These were only relatively brief passages though.