Another Part of the Heath

Yasuhiko Nishizawa’s 1995 The Man Who Died Seven Times is a stand-alone science fiction mystery. Jesse Kirkwood’s English translation came out in 2025. That someone murdered elderly Japanese businessman1 Reijiro Fuchigami is no surprise. Reijiro alienated his family and squandered his money gambling. When through an unbelievable run of good luck he later amassed a fortune, he used the fortune as the means to get petty revenge on the people who had turned their backs on him. The trick is to determine which of the many people with good reason to kill Reijiro actually killed Reijiro. Reijiro’s grandson Hisataro Oba, known to most as Kyutaro, can do one better: thanks to his curious medical condition, he can not only reveal the killer, he can prevent the murder in the first place.