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Joseph
I've never read anything like this before. To paraphrase the Denver Post, the main character, Sano Ichiro, is "... an ancestor of Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade" who does his detective work in seventeenth-century Japan. This author does an amazing job of describing the setting for her readers who know absolutely nothing about 17th century Japan. The characters are intriguing and the action and pace of the story will take your breath away and makes this book very hard to put down. I ...more
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