Amid the political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a daunting, complex investigation. Twenty months spent as the shogun's most honourable investigator of events, situations and people have left Sano weary. He looks forward to the comforts of his arranged marriage and month's holiday to celebrate the union with his new wife. However, the death of the shogun's favourite concubine interrupts the couple's wedding ceremony as Sano is recalled to perform his duty. After Sano traces the cause of Lady Harume's death to a ...
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Amid the political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a daunting, complex investigation. Twenty months spent as the shogun's most honourable investigator of events, situations and people have left Sano weary. He looks forward to the comforts of his arranged marriage and month's holiday to celebrate the union with his new wife. However, the death of the shogun's favourite concubine interrupts the couple's wedding ceremony as Sano is recalled to perform his duty. After Sano traces the cause of Lady Harume's death to a self-inflicted tattoo, his must travel into the cloistered world of the shogun's women to untangle the complicated web of Harume's lovers, rivals and troubled past, and identify her killer.
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Rowland brings together the key supporting characters that help Sano Ichiro bring justice to the Shogun's court in 17th Century Japan. Her writing brings the reader into an intimate vantage point to understand the historic Japanese culture and political environment where the ruler is not the Emperor, but the Shogun. Or is the true ruler the second in command within the Shogun's staff that controls not just the government bureaucracy, but the Shogun too.
Read the first three novels first, but set aside sufficient time to let Rowland's story telling key all your senses.
