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What makes this novel worth reading sure isn't style or plot but the cultural and historical picture of Japan under the Shogunate. While it dips at times through others' points of view, this tale is mostly seen through the eyes of Sano Ichiru, a samurai currently employed as a Yoriki, supervising policemen in the city of Edo. When he's asked to look into a seeming joint suicide, a shinju, his position, his honor, and his very life is put into danger when he defies orders and digs further into wh
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Hooray!! The start of a new series that blends two of the best for me--mystery and historical fiction. Set in medieval Japan, Sano Ichiro is a yoriki or investigator for the government of the Tokugawa shoguns. However, he works outside the warrior code and outside the box when he is told to rubber-stamp a "shinju" or suicide of an artist and a young woman from a noble family. But nothing seems "right" about this to Sano who goes against the orders of his superior to investigate what he feels is
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