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  • Published: 16 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781647290511
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 210
  • RRP: $24.99

A School Frozen in Time 3



On a snowy school day like any other, classmates and childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive at school to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends, and even stranger, all the clocks have stopped at a very specific moment--the exact time when a former classmate jumped off the school roof to their death three months earlier. It turns out that this departed friend is their way out of their current predicament and may even be among their group...but no one can remember who it was that took their life on that sad day. The students must face themselves and their past memories to piece together the identity of this suicide victim or risk a similar fate--with their lives lost and forgotten inside these frigid school walls.

First, there were eight, and now there are six. With Mitsuru and Shimizu now missing, everyone is on edge as they try to find a way out of their horrifying circumstances. The remaining students continue to suspect that the person keeping them trapped is among them, but Shimizu also suggested a bizarre, new theory: they may be inside the mind of the person who took their own life at the school festival. Takano thinks he might just know who their tormentor is, but many unanswered questions still remain. Can he get to the bottom of this mystery before his time’s up?

  • Published: 16 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781647290511
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 210
  • RRP: $24.99

About the authors

Naoshi Arakawa

Naoshi Arakawa is a manga creator living in Japan.

Mizuki Tsujimura

MIZUKI TSUJIMURA is the winner of the Japan Booksellers' Award and the Naoki prize, two highly influential awards in Japan. Her novel LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR sold one million copies in Japan. She has writtten several mystery novels and is at work on a new novel. She lives in Japan.