The Shogun's top investigator, Sano Ichiro, is called upon to investigate a young concubine who was poisoned while applying a lover's tattoo, but the case is complicated by his new wife's interventions in the investigation, in a mystery set in seventeenth-century Japan. Reprint.
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Positively smokes with historical atmospherics. (Publishers Weekly)
Exotic and beguiling. a tour de force of imagination. (Robert Harris)
Impressive ... An eerie Japanese echo of Presumed Innocent. (Kirkus Reviews)
Like Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Rowland's novel is an excellent whodunit. (Booklist)
Rowland's understanding of the society she depicts shines through... making this a good bet for fans of historicals as well as of mysteries. (Publishers Weekly)
The Sano Ichiro mysteries, set in seventeenth century Japan
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