The Aosawa Murders information

The Aosawa Murders
Author	Riku Onda
Original title	Eugenia
Translator	Alison Watts
Cover artist	Eleanor Rose
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Genre	Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Detective Fiction
Publisher	Kadokawa Corporation, Bitter Lemon Press (English Version)
Publication date	February 2, 2005
Published in English	February 18, 2020
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	315
ISBN	978-1-912242-245

The Aosawa Murders is the first crime novel written by Riku Onda and was published in Japan in 2005.^[1] Bitter Lemon Press later published an English translation in 2020.^[2]

The novel focuses on a 1973 mass poisoning case set in seaside city K—. At a birthday celebration for the influential Aosawa family, seventeen people died from poisoning after drinking sake and soft drinks.^[3]

Onda's writing style is classified as shin honkaku, a "new orthodox" form of Japanese detective fiction, and is structured to focus on three converging timelines.^[4]

Onda drew inspiration for the novel after listening to Michel Petrucciani's song Eugenia.^[5] It also references the Teigin Incident, a real case of mass cyanide poisoning in Japan that occurred in 1948.^[6]^[7]

The reception of the novel was well received, landing on top 100 notable books of 2020 by The New York Times.^[8] She won the Best Novel for Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 2006.^[9]

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