Those Who Cast a Curse Like the Headless / 首無の如き祟るもの

And so we arrive at the third book in the Genya Toujou series. The previous two books provided a wonderful blend of J-horror, murder mystery, and folklore, and Those Who Cast a Curse Like the Headless is supposed to be a contender of the peak of the series. So does this book have enough to take the crown, or is it getting ahead of itself?

Who Inside / 封印再度

Who Inside is the fifth book in the Saikawa & Moe (or, as I prefer, S&M) series. It’s ten books total, so we’re halfway through! (…Ignoring the fact that I never reviewed The Perfect Insider on this blog.) Anyway, the S&M series has a heavy dose of STEM, which I’ve always assumed would result in mechanical and stuffy mysteries, but Mori continues to play around with structure and convention. While the book gets a bit weird and might be a fair deal longer than it really needs to be, the core trick is great and enough for me to view the piece favorably. (That sentence, coincidentally, can also serve as my Perfect Insider review.)