The Village of Eight Graves

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Tatsuya, a young man searching for his origins, travels to the remote Village of Eight Graves — a place cursed since eight samurai were massacred there centuries ago. The village's history of violence seems to be repeating: residents are dying, and Tatsuya himself may be the catalyst. Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives to find a mystery entangled with local legend, buried treasure, and a community that has lived with its ghosts for too long. Yokomizo's third Kindaichi novel is his most atmospheric — a Gothic thriller where the landscape itself feels complicit in the murders. The investigation unfolds against a backdrop of caves, mines, and a village that wears its curse like a second skin. A mystery where the crime scene is an entire village — and the curse has been waiting centuries for someone to trigger it.