Decapitation: kubikiri cycle, paperback/nisioisin

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island.

Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind--one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.

The top-selling novelist year by year in his native Japan, prolific palindromic phenomenon NISIOISIN made his debut when he was only twenty with this Mephisto Award winner, a whodunit and locked-room mystery at once old-school and eye-opening.

Previously published stateside by Del Rey, the translation has been retitled and revised just in time for the long-requested animated series based on illustrator take s character concepts.