β Scribed by Laura Joh Rowland
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From Publishers Weekly Seventeenth-century Tokyo is the setting for Rowland's debut novel, a murder mystery starring the Senior Police Commander in the district of Edo. Sano Ichiro, a samurai whose academic background puts him at odds with most of his peers, discovers two bodies in the Sumida Rive
SUMMARY: Seventeenth-century Tokyo is the setting for Rowland's first book in a murder mystery series featuring Sano Ichiro the Senior Police Commander in the district of Edo. Ichiro is a samurai whose academic background puts him at odds with most of his peers.When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and l
When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a **shinju,** or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love. Everyone but newly appointed **yoriki** Sano Ichiro. Despite the official verdict and warnings from his superiors, the
It is January 1689 in Edo, the city that would one day become Tokyo. The bodies of a beautiful noblewoman and a male commoner, bound together, are dragged from the murky Sumida River: a typical shinjΕ«, a ritual double suicide committed by a pair of star-crossed lovers. But when Sano IchirΕ, a teache