THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER OF JAPAN FROM THE WINNER OF THE HONKAKU PRIZE-2023. A NOVEL THAT IN JAPAN IS RANKED ON A PAR WITH THE ICONIC HONKAKU "TOKYO ZODIAC" AND "HOUSE OF CROOKED WALLS" BY SOJI SHIMADA.The "House of the Setting Sun" by the famous detective author Yuzan Takarada is an extremely mysterious mansion with many secret rooms. This place is literally packed with strange mechanisms. Once they served for the writer's intellectual games, but now he is bedridden and barely thinks.A forest fire has trapped a very diverse group in Takarada's house. People were cut off from the world by a ring of fire. To escape, they must find a secret passage hidden somewhere in the building. However, the search was interrupted by a shocking event — the writer's granddaughter ... was crushed by the intricate suspended ceiling of one of the rooms.There are two people in the company with outstanding deductive abilities. Asukai Hikaru, a former detective, believes that it was an accident — the girl was killed by the house itself. Teruyoshi Katsuragi is a novice detective, but he is sure that the killer is one of them. In the face of imminent death in the fire, the two begin a battle of wits…Tatsumi Atsukawa holds the record — he has been in the top ten ratings of action-packed literature in his homeland for five years in a row. In the Land of the Rising Sun, he was announced as one of the authors of detective stories, whose novelties readers are waiting for the most.