The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria - Softcover

Rowland, Laura Joh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312983786 ISBN 13: 9780312983789

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2003

Synopsis

Sano Ichiro, Most Honurable Investigator of Events, Situations and People, discovers that the shogun's cousin and heir, murdered after a night of debauchery, was last seen in the company of the alluring Lady Wisteria. And now it appears both she and her pillow book diary have vanished.

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Review:

Like the big, sprawling novels of James Clavell, the Sano Ichiro mysteries are full of captivating detail, with lively characters and solid stories. "Booklist" Delicate prose and a plot full of the overtones and undercurrents that shade real life push Rowland's latest historical beyond the standard whodunit. "Publishers Weekly"" "Like the big, sprawling novels of James Clavell, the Sano Ichiro mysteries are full of captivating detail, with lively characters and solid stories."-"Booklist " "Delicate prose and a plot full of the overtones and undercurrents that shade real life push Rowland's latest historical beyond the standard whodunit."--"Publishers Weekly"

From the Back Cover:

In feudal Japan, passion and secrets lead to murder. . .

From A Remote, Exotic World. . .

Sano Ichiro, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, awakens from a turbulent dream into a real-life nightmare. Lord Matsudaira Mitsuyoshi, the shogun's cousin and heir, has been murdered after a night of debauchery in the city's pleasure quarter...

Comes A Danger All Too Close To Home. . .

The matter requires Sano's personal attention-more personal than Sano at first imagines. For he soon discovers that Mitsuyoshi's companion for the evening was none other than the alluring Lady Wisteria, a woman whom Sano himself once knew intimately before he was married to his beloved wife, Reiko. But the memory of Wisteria still stirs him, and it is with both dismay and relief that he learns she has vanished along with her pillow book, a diary that may contain valuable clues. The circumstances trouble him, as does the possibility that he and Wisteria might meet again with dangerous consequences. . .

"Like the big, sprawling novels of James Clavell, the Sano Ichiro mysteries are full of captivating detail, with lively characters and solid stories."

-Booklist

"Delicate prose and a plot full of the overtones and undercurrents that shade real life push Rowland's latest historical beyond the standard whodunit."

--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312983786
• ISBN 13: 9780312983789
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368