narrative trick
A storytelling device in mystery fiction where the narration itself misleads the reader, often by withholding or distorting information. Common in Japanese mystery novels.
This mystery novel uses a clever narrative trick, and I was fooled until the very end.
The narrative trick is one technique for misleading the reader.
Compound of 叙述 (narration) and トリック (trick), likely a calque from English 'narrative trick' used in literary criticism.