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    <body><![CDATA[In my current favorite genre - historical detective stories, I.J. Parker has become my favorite writer.  This, the second book about a civil servant in 11th century Japan, in the fashion of Robert VanGulik's Judge Dee mysteries, is extremetly well written and exciting.  This has started me on anothe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52963210">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The unflappable Akitada emerges victorious (but it was a close one) after many murders and a bloody rebellion in which he discovers his own blood lust. Lots of family secrets, intrigue, and personal loss compel you not to put it down. Always something that is not what it seems, even when you think i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63313402">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in 10th century Japan, this is the third in I. J. Parker's series about Sugawara Akitada, a young minor nobleman who is starting his career as a government official who also solves murders.<br/><br/>He is assigned the provisional governorship of a northern province while the actual governor sp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/239351">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Medieval Japanese mystery.  Sugawara Akitada and his pregnant wife are stationed in northern Japan to quell an uprising by local warlord.]]></body>
    
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