Shinju (Sano Ichiro) - Softcover

Joh Rowland, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845299043 ISBN 13: 9781845299040

Publisher: Constable & Robinson, 2009

Synopsis

Seventeenth-century Tokyo is the setting for Rowland's first book in a murder mystery series featuring Sano Ichiro the Senior Police Commander in the district of Edo. Ichiro is a samurai whose academic background puts him at odds with most of his peers. When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in what seems to be a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the cause was their forbidden love. Everyone, that is, but Sano Ichiro. Despite the official verdict and being warned off by his superiors, the shogun’s Most Honourable Investigator of Events, Situations and People suspects this double death was not only a tragedy – it was murder. Risking his family’s good name and his own life, Sano will search for the killer across every level of society, determined to find answers to a mystery no one else seems to want solved . . .

About this title

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Review:

An exotic and beguiling mystery story; a tour de force of imagination (Robert Harris)

Intriguing... an interesting... exciting tale. (New York Times Book Review)

Nearly impossible to put down. (The Washington Post Book World)

Rowland... shows sure command of her background material and demonstrates that she is a writer of depth and potential. (Publishers Weekly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Constable & Robinson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1845299043
• ISBN 13: 9781845299040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 431