The Samurai's Wife: 5 - Brossura

Rowland, Laura Joh

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1250035783 ISBN 13: 9781250035783

Casa editrice: Minotaur Books, 2012

Riassunto

Sano Ichiro, the Shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, has his doubts about the partnership that he and his spirited new wife, Reiko, have forged: While he can't help recognizing that her help on his cases can be invaluable, he sometimes longs for a more traditional wife. Still, when a botched case and the resulting loss of face send Sano to the Imperial city to find a killer whose methods are as terrifying as they are elusive, Sano needs the talents of his wife more than ever to inflitrate the emperor's inner circle. Rowland's series "positively smokes with historical atmospherics" (Publishers Weekly), and THE SAMURAI'S WIFE is her most intricate and compelling novel to date.

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L'autore:

LAURA JOH ROWLAND is the author of the Sano Ichiro mysteries (The Ronin’s Mistress, The Incense Game, The Shogun’s Daughter, etc.), which have been named Best Mysteries of the Year by Publishers Weekly and won RT Book Review Reviewers’ Choice Awards. She lived through a natural disaster when Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed her house in New Orleans, and now lives in New York City.

Product Description:

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 city," 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 storm--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.

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• Editore: Minotaur Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1250035783
• ISBN 13: 9781250035783
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 306