Yae Utsumi: 6 books

A crime, and a deepening mystery: the answer becomes apparent as the four friends line up the pieces of the truth. They have lost time, and a lot of it. Beneath the moon’s light, they finally see the crime incarnate?but the road back has been buried beneath a flurry of ever more mistakes. Dark voices...

Betrayed by what they had believed in, they commit one new crime after the other. The shards of the truth that begin to appear cut into their skin, deeper than anything before. …And anyway… when did this case begin?

The summer they were eleven, they killed a man and buried his body in a cave. Since then, every year, one summer night has marked a ritual: a ritual never to forget, and never to betray. Five years have passed. Their sixteenth summer. The body, now a skeleton. Unraveled lies. A faceless blackmailer....

Five friends killed a man and buried the body. Five years later, the body is stolen. The thief: unknown. His hostage: a corpse. There is nowhere to run, only the mystery blackmailer's cruel, repulsive "instructions." And so occurs a tragedy, under the sun, in the woods. The indelible scent of blood....

They cut up the headless body. If only it were someone else. If only they didn’t know his name. Pushed to their psychological limits, the friends return to the cave where everything began, and peer into each other’s faces. Among them is a liar. A nighttime disappearance. A journey to the sea....

The dead cannot speak. The blackmailer they chased already dead, freedom at last from the lady of the park provides little solace as the four friends find themselves on thin ice. Sealing up darkness with darkness, painting over lies with lies. Now one overlooked reaches out for their tangled web....