Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Year: 2013
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Mystery, Historical fiction, Fiction
Culture: Japan
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9781250049346
1250049342 |
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Japan, 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed, attended by her nurse. Smallpox pustules cover her face. Incense burns, to banish the evil spirits of disease. After Tsuruhime takes her last breath, the old woman watching from the doorway says, "Who's going to tell the Shogun his daughter is dead?"
The death of the Shogun's daughter has immediate consequences on his regime. There will be no grandchild to leave the kingdom. Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles caused by the recent earthquake, he names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered was his. Until five months ago, Yoshisato was raised as the illegitimate son of Yanagisawa, the shogun's favorite advisor. Yanagisawa is also the longtime enemy of Sano Ichiro.
Sano doubts that Yoshisato is really the Shogun's son, believing it's more likely a power-play by Yanagisawa. When Sano learns that Tsuruhime's death may have been a murder, he sets off on a dangerous investigation that leads to more death and destruction as he struggles to keep his pregnant wife, Reiko, and his son safe. Instead, he and his family become the accused. And this time, they may not survive the day.
Laura Joh Rowland's thrilling series set in Feudal Japan is as gripping and entertaining as ever.
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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