The first in the author’s series of murder-mysteries set in 17th Century Japan and with her protagonist, the samurai and police inspector of Edo (Tokyo) – Sano Ichiro.
This isn’t a historical period that I’ve visited before – beyond the odd subtitled movie and a youthful tendency to tune in each week to The Water Margin – but the historical details were fascinating, plentiful enough to provide context and colour, but never heavy-handed or overwhelming the plot. The murder-mystery was intriguing and the story populated with wonderful characters.
As the author appears to have written a large series of Sano mysteries and I seem to have most of them on the Kindle – looks like I’m going to be immersing myself in ancient Japan for some time to come!
LabRat
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
