Book description
Amid the political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a
daunting, complex investigation. Twenty months spent as the shogun's
most honourable investigator of events, situations and people have
left Sano weary. He looks forward to the comforts of his arranged
marriage and month's holiday to celebrate the union with his new wife.
However, the death of the shogun's favourite concubine interrupts the
couple's wedding ceremony as Sano is recalled to perform his duty.
After Sano traces the cause of Lady Harume's death to a self-inflicted
tattoo, his must travel into the cloistered world of the shogun's
women to untangle the complicated web of Harume's lovers, rivals and
troubled past, and identify her killer.
Laura Joh Rowland came to writing by accident, having first gained a
degree in microbiology and a masters in public health, and then working
as a chemist and microbiologist. She is the author of more than a dozen
acclaimed murder mysteries, particularly the Sano Ichiro series set in
feudal Japan and featuring samurai detective Sano Ichiro. The
granddaughter of Chinese and Korean immigrants, Laura Joh Rowland grew
up in Michigan and now lives in New Orleans.
