Title: The Assassin's Touch
Author(s): Laura Joh Rowland
Language: English
Published: 31 October 2006
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312992095
Extension: EPUB
Size: 314 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Historical - General, Historical fiction, Mystery, Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, Crime & Thriller, Historical, Fiction - Mystery, Detective, Mystery And Suspense Fiction, Police, Mystery fiction, Japan, Crime & mystery, Mystery & Detective - Historical, Assassination, Ichirō (Fictitious character), 1688-1704, Laura Joh Rowland, Ichiro (Fictitious character), Sano, Japan - History - Genroku period, Public officers, Public officers - Crimes against, Sano; Ichiro (Fictitious character), Japan - History - Genroku period; 1688-1704, Police - Japan - Tokyo
Categories: Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction
"Elegantly told and interspersed with delicious bits of history" (Kirkus Reviews), Laura Joh Rowland's The Assassin's Touch is a mystery set in feudal Japan you won't want to miss!
May 1695. During a horse race at Edo Castle the chief of the shogun's intelligence service, Ejima Senzaemon, drops dead as his horse gallops across the finish line-the fourth in a recent series of sudden deaths of high-ranking officials. Sano Ichiro is ordered to investigate, despite his recent promotion to chamberlain and his new duties as the shogun's second-in-command.
Meanwhile, Sano's wife, Reiko, is invited to attend the trial of Yugao, a beautiful young woman accused of stabbing her parents and sister to death. The woman has confessed, but the magistrate believes there is more to this case than meets the eye. He delays his verdict and asks Reiko to prove Yugao's guilt or innocence.
As their investigations continue, both Sano and Reiko come to realize that the man he is trying to hunt and the woman she is desperate to save are somehow connected. A single fingerprint on Ejima's temple puts Sano on the trail of an underground movement to overthrow the regime, and in the path of an assassin with a deadly touch.
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