A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to
a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds
herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind--one of
whom ends up headless one fine morning.
The top-selling novelist year by year in his native Japan, prolific
palindromic phenomenon NISIOISIN made his debut when he was only
twenty with this Mephisto Award winner, a whoduni and locked-room
mystery at once old-school and eye-opening. Previously published
stateside by Del Rey, the translation has been retitled and revised just
in time for the long-requested animated series based on illustrator
take's character concepts.
