Treachery becomes a habit.? London is in the grip of a stifling heatwave. The?city has slowed to a claustrophobic shuffle.?Heroin-addicted investigator Catherine Berlin suffers while working the lowest?of investigations: matrimonial. The city's junkies are in the grip of a drought of a differe
A Bitter Taste
โ Scribed by Josh Reynolds
- Book ID
- 115270330
- Publisher
- Aconyte
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 7 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781839083020
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Gentleman sleuth Daidoji Shin faces his trickiest case yet when he finds himself being framed for murder in this captivating cozy fantasy mystery from Legend of the Five Rings.
In the fantasy empire of Rokugan, when a Crane Clan auditor turns up dead in a soy brewery, all eyes turn to nobleman-turned-detective, Daidoji Shin... but not to solve the man's murder; rather, Shin is the suspect. Now Shin must attempt to figure out who killed the victim and, more importantly, who framed him, all while outwitting the authorities on his trail - including a dogged Kitsuki investigator with a score to settle. Caught in a spider's web of intrigue and with his enemies closing in, time is running out for Dadoiji Shin...
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