The Samurai's Wife

Laura Joh Rowland

Book 5 of Sano Ichiro Mysteries

Language: English

ISBN

American English Crime & Thriller Crime & mystery Detective Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Historical Historical fiction History Ichiro; Sano (Fictitious character) Ichirō; Sano (Fictitious character) Japan Japan - History - Fiction. Japan - History - Genroku period; 1688-1704 Kyoto (Japan) Laura Joh Rowland Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Modern fiction Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - Historical Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural Mystery fiction Police Procedural Samurai Sano; Ichiro (Fictitious character)

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: Mar 29, 2001

Description:

EDITORIAL REVIEW: IN THE IMPERIAL CITY OF KYOTO, POWER IS MERELY CEREMONIAL. BUT AN ANCIENT EVIL STILL SURVIVES...Far from the shogun's court at Edo, Most Honorable Investigator Sano Ichiro begins the most challenging case of his career. Upon the insistence of his strong-willed and beautiful wife Reiko, Sano arrives with her at the emperor's palace to unmask the murderer-who possesses the secret of kiai-"the spirit cry"-a powerful scream that can kill instantly. A high Kyoto official is the victim. Treading carefully through a web of spies, political intrigue, forbidden passions, and intricate plots, Sano and Reiko must struggle to stay ahead of the palace storms-and outwit a cunning killer. But as they soon discover, solving the case means more than their survival. For if they fail, Japan could be consumed in the bloodiest war it has ever seen...A legendary land comes alive in this compelling murder mystery set in seventeenth-century Japan. Filled with finely drawn characters and suspenseful plot twists, THE SAMURAI'S WIFE is a novel as complex, vivid, and artful as the glorious, lost world it portrays.AUTHORBIO: LAURA JOH ROWLAND, the granddaughter of Chinese and Korean immigrants, grew up in Michigan. She is the author of four previous Sano Ichiro novels, The Concubine's Tattoo, Shinju, Bundori, and The Way of the Traitor, and lives in New Orleans with her husband and three cats.