Title: The Dragon King's Palace
Author(s): Laura Joh Rowland
Language: English
Published: 01 April 2007
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312990039
Extension: EPUB
Size: 333 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Historical - General, Historical fiction, Mystery, Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, Crime & Thriller, Historical, Fiction - Mystery, Detective, Japan, Kidnapping, Crime & mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery & Detective - Historical, Samurai, Detective and mystery stories - lcsh, Ichirō (Fictitious character), Ichiro (Fictitious character), Sano, Japan - History - Genroku period, Ichir†o (Fictitious character), 1688-1704 - Fiction, Sano; Ichiro (Fictitious character), Sano; Ichirō (Fictitious character), Ichiro (Fictitious character) - Fiction, Kidnapping - Japan - Fiction
Categories: Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction
Once again, Laura Joh Rowland's dazzling combination of history and storytelling draws us into a sumptuous and treacherous world, in The Dragon King's Palace.
On a whim of the shogun's mother, a procession has left the sweltering heat of Edo, bound for the cooler climate of Mount Fuji. Among her traveling companions are Reiko, the beautiful wife of Sano Ichiro, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People; Reiko's friend Midori, nine months pregnant; and Lady Yanagisawa, the deranged wife of the shogun's powerful second-in-command. None of them look forward to the trip. But their troubles have only begun when their procession is stopped suddenly on a deserted road. The entire retinue is viciously slaughtered and the four women are bound and taken away, imprisoned by a mysterious kidnapper.
Sano now finds himself faced with the most important case of his career. The shogun demands quick action, and under the threat of death, Sano is forced to work with his bitter enemies--Chamberlain Yanagisawa and Police Commissioner Hoshina.
The women are in imminent danger, and the delivery of a ransom note only complicates matters--forcing both Sano and Reiko to take desperate measures.
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