Okay, I’ll keep it in mind when making the schedule. If chapters allow it, 30 pages sounds like a good compromise for everyone. 
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I went ahead and set up the thread (although it’s still early), so we can discuss schedule:
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Just a heads up that the horror club is now voting for its August read, and three Onda Riku books are nominated. If you’re interested, come and vote!
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The Horror club picked 六番目の小夜子 and will be reading it over August. Since the book was also nominated here, we can think of it as a crossover between the two clubs.
Join us here:
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Came across this book and need to propose it while it’s fresh in my mind 
Book: 中庭の出来事 | L30??
Genre: sounds like a murder mystery or something?
Length: 522 pages
Is there an ebook available?: yes
Summary - Japanese
瀟洒なホテルの中庭で、気鋭の脚本家が謎の死を遂げた。容疑は、パーティ会場で発表予定だった『告白』の主演女優候補三人に掛かる。警察は女優三人に脚本家の変死をめぐる一人芝居『告白』を演じさせようとする――という設定の戯曲『中庭の出来事』を執筆中の劇作家がいて……。虚と実、内と外がめまぐるしく反転する眩惑の迷宮。芝居とミステリが見事に融合した山本周五郎賞受賞作。[Bookwalker]
Summary - English
An up-and-coming screenwriter dies mysteriously in the courtyard of a posh hotel. Suspicion falls on three potential leading actresses for Confessions, which was to be presented at the party. The police try to get the three actresses to perform ‘Confessions’, a one-woman play about the playwright’s strange death - a playwright is writing a play called ‘What Happens in the Courtyard’. … A dazzling labyrinth in which falsity and reality, inside and outside, are dizzyingly inverted. A brilliant fusion of theatre and mystery in this Shugoro Yamamoto Award-winning play.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version) - not proofread
Content warnings if known
Death? I’d be disappointed if not…
Why are you nominating this book:
Wikipedia says it’s “a complex story about a playwright writing a play about a playwright who is murdered while writing a play.” I’m sold already 
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That summary is way too compelling for me. I love that kind of meta plot
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I’m just worried that it might be hella confusing; especially when paired with Onda Riku’s sometimes pretty roundabout way of describing things 
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