The Scent of Mystery Comes from the Bakery 빵집에서는 수수께끼의 향기가 난다
The Scent of Mystery Comes from the Bakery 빵집에서는 수수께끼의 향기가 난다
아르테(arte)
Everyday mysteries carried on the warm aroma of bread, and a cozy mystery filled with gentle missions, clever deductions, and plenty of smiles.
Winner of the 23rd "This Mystery Is Amazing!" Grand Prize, with more than 200,000 copies sold in Japan within two months of publication.
The moment you open the door of a bakery, drawn in by the aroma of freshly baked bread, you encounter mysteries hidden within its warm, savory air. The Scent of Mystery Comes from the Bakery, winner of the 23rd "This Mystery Is Amazing!" Grand Prize and a sensation that sold more than 200,000 copies in Japan within two months of publication, is now available in Korea from Arte. Life Pattern Korea. This is the debut novel of Usagi Tsuchiya, whose outstanding storytelling abilities had already earned her recognition as a manga artist. In 2023, Ah, Our Girls' Bar received an honorable mention in the long-running Akatsuka Award, administered by Shueisha, while Find the Person You Like was selected as an outstanding work in the Creative Yuri Manga Award that same year. In 2024, she received the Jade Award at the 30th Yuri Hime Comic Award for You, the Humanities Student, and You, the Science Student. The Scent of Mystery Comes from the Bakery proved that her talent for storytelling translates just as powerfully to fiction, making a brilliant debut by winning the top prize in the new writer competition organized by the mystery guidebook This Mystery Is Amazing!
The Scent of Mystery Comes from the Bakery draws deeply on the author's own experience of working at a bakery while pursuing her dream of becoming a manga artist. It also fulfilled another dream she had long held: writing a novel. Life Pattern Korea. Her personality and outlook are reflected throughout the story. Although the book presents itself as a work of mystery and deduction, no one dies and not a single drop of blood is spilled. Instead, it is filled with completely harmless warmth, inviting readers to look at ordinary bakery life from a fresh perspective while reflecting on hope, laughter, friendship, and comfort. With a warm and compassionate gaze, the novel gently reminds us, through the delicious aroma of bread, that even the most familiar daily routine can become a new mystery every day. Following the book's continued popularity, a sequel was published in Japan in April 2026, and the series has now sold more than 400,000 copies.
Plot
Koharu Ichikura is a financially struggling university student in Osaka. She loves bread and works part-time at a bakery called Nostimo, partly because employees are allowed to take home the unsold bread. Life Pattern Korea. Although she is constantly busy balancing her studies and work, she remains committed to her job while holding on to her dream of becoming a manga artist someday.
Her main duties include arranging the bread, greeting customers, and helping with baking, all amid the warm aroma of fresh bread rising from the ovens early in the morning. Her routine may appear monotonous at first glance, but as an aspiring manga artist, Koharu sees every person she meets and everything that happens at the bakery as a subject for observation, investigation, curiosity, and mystery. Life Pattern Korea. She must repair a friendship nearly ruined by a well-intentioned lie, uncover a coworker's double life, mediate between high school customers torn between friendship and love, save a bread item facing discontinuation, and track down a curry bread a customer remembers from 30 years ago. Can she really keep this part-time job for long?
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Publisher: 아르테(arte) (2026)
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