Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Year: 2005
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Mystery, Historical fiction, Fiction
Culture: Japan
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9780312992095
0312992092 |
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It is a lost art, passed down by the ancients in great secrecy: Dim-mak. It is death, by the lightest touch of a finger. Sano Ichiro, tenuous in the new regime as the shogun's second-in-command, does not have the luxury of skepticism?another senior official is dead, a fingerprint lightly glazed into his skin.
Sano's wife Reiko has an investigation of her own: a beautiful, proud, and hopelessly poor woman has confessed to murdering her family. Yet the pieces do not fit, and as Reiko looks deeper into the woman's life as a hinin?a moral outcast, shunned by the world?inexplicable connections appear between her investigation and Sano's.
As Reiko's questions spiral her further into the squalor of life as a hinin, Sano and Hirata?his most loyal samurai?pursure their prey, uncovering an intricate tapestry of betrayal woven into the highest levels of the new regime. But they are no match for the one who has mastered dim-mak, a warrior who will strike all those who cross him or his path--even Reiko.
"Elegantly told and interspersed with delicious bits of history" (Kirkus Reviews), Laura Joh Rowland's The Assassin's Touch is a mystery you won't want to miss.
This book is part of the "Sano Ichiro" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Incense Game"
First published in 2012
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 | "The Ronin's Mistress"
First published in 2011
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 | "The Cloud Pavilion"
First published in 2009
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 | "The Fire Kimono"
First published in 2008
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 | "The Snow Empress"
First published in 2007
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 | "Red Chrysanthemum"
First published in 2006
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 | "The Perfumed Sleeve"
First published in 2004
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 | "Black Lotus"
First published in 2001
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 | "The Samurai's Wife"
First published in 2000
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 | "Bundori"
First published in 1996
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 | "Shinju"
First published in 1994
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 | "The Iris Fan"
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