Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Year: 1998
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Mystery, Historical fiction, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Detective
Cultures: Japan, Asia
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9780312969226
0312969228 |
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Twenty months spent as the shogun's sosakan-sama--most honorable investigator of events, situations, and people--has left Sano Ichiro weary. He looks forward to the comforts that his arranged marriage promises: a private life with a sweet, submissive wife and a month's holiday to celebrate their union. However, the death of the shogun's favorite concubine interrupts the couple's wedding ceremony and shatters any hopes the samurai detective had about enjoying a little peace with his new wife.
After Sano traces the cause of Lady Harume's death to a self-inflicted tattoo, he must travel into the cloistered, forbidden world of the shogun's women to untangle the complicated web of Harume's lovers, rivals, and troubled past, and identify her killer. To make matters worse, Reiko, his beautiful young bride, reveals herself to be not a traditional, obedient wife, but instead, a headstrong, intelligent, aspiring detective bent on helping Sano with his new case. Sano is horrified at her unladylike behavior, and the resulting sparks make their budding love as exciting as they mystery surrounding Lady Harume's death. Amid the heightened tensions and political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a daunting complex investigation.
As subtle as the finest lacquered screen, as powerful as the slash of a sword, Laura Joh Rowland's The Concubine's Tattoo vividly brings to life a story of murder, jealousy, sexual intrigue, and political storms that keeps is in its spell until the final, shattering scene.
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 Assassin's Touch"
First published in 2005
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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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