[Reading Record] The Forbidden Child

I finished the series I wanted to read and was thinking about going back to picture books when I got a notification that a book I had reserved had arrived. I believe I reserved it after it was introduced on BS Fuji's "I Read That Book," but it took exactly a year to come around!?

What a connection to Tetsuya Ayukawa!

The first book of theKitamura seriesI was reading just recently was one of theThirteen Mysteries of Tetsuya Ayukawapublished by the same publisher. It was a public submission project where a new author earned the "13th Chair" and was published. It seems it became theAyukawa Tetsuya Awardstarting the following year.
For the 34th award in 2024, there were 216 total submissions, and "The Forbidden Child" stood out among the 4 books in the final selection, winning unanimously without any complaints.

That's right, Mio Yamaguchi mentioned on that TV broadcast that she was a practicing doctor and a mother of an infant.Medical X Hardboiled Mystery!

The setting is 2023, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The descriptions, which feel a bit nostalgic now, and the Kansai dialect are depicted in a way that feels very natural.
The protagonist, an emergency doctor, receives an emergency patient who is a naked, drowned corpse that looks more than just similar to the protagonist in face and physique... I was captivated by that shock.
Who is this corpse? What is the connection to the protagonist? While searching for their own roots, they encounter another corpse in a locked room.

The medical scene and knowledge are written in a way that makes you think, "As expected of a practicing doctor!" but
even I, who have no knowledge, can manage to keep up. A medical? Mystery? drama seems to be already forming in my mind.

The detective, Dr. Kinosaki, is a middle school classmate of the protagonist, Dr. Takeda, and because they have a past friendship, they begin solving the mystery in a cooperative system.
Kinosaki, who says his emotional movements disappear in an instant, looks at things calmly without being swayed, and his relationship with Takeda, who is emotional, serious, and good-natured, provides an interesting contrast as they get closer and closer to the truth.

The story became quite heavy halfway through, but I thought it was a mystery unique to an author who can write about medical knowledge and the current situation. (Though that's just an amateur's opinion, haha). I felt like I understood it somewhat once the fractions appeared, but... still not quite (haha). The culprit was unexpected!

Proof by contradiction.
Did I do this in math? I was bad at proofs and such (haha).
Assuming the "negation of A," if there is a contradiction in the process of proving it, you can prove that the assumption is wrong (= A is correct).
It's still complicated even after reading it (haha).

It was used to solve the mystery, but
the fact that I could feel something a little warm after finishing it made me think that maybe it was also used for Dr. Kinosaki.

The doctor who is thought to be calm and cold is actually kind, isn't he? ^^
It seems a second book is already out, so I'd like to read it if I have the chance.