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Assassin's Touch
A Sano Ichiro Mystery
Laura Joh Rowland
ISBN: 0312992092
Mass Market Paperback
Publication Date: October 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
List Price: $6.99
Synposis
(from the publisher): May 1695. During a horse race at Edo Castle the
chief of the shogun's intelligence service, Ejima Senzaemon, drops dead
as his horse gallops across the finish line—the fourth in a
recent series of sudden deaths of high-ranking officials. Sano Ichiro
is ordered to investigate, despite his recent promotion to chamberlain
and his new duties as the shogun's second-in-command.
Meanwhile, Sano's wife, Reiko, is invited to attend the trial of Yugao,
a beautiful young woman accused of stabbing her parents and sister to
death. The woman has confessed, but the magistrate believes there is
more to this case than meets the eye. He delays his verdict and asks
Reiko to prove Yugao's guilt or innocence.
As their investigations continue, both Sano and Reiko come to realize
that the man he is trying to hunt and the woman she is desperate to
save are somehow connected. A single fingerprint on Ejima's temple puts
Sano on the trail of an underground movement to overthrow the regime,
and in the path of an assassin with a deadly touch.
Additional Notes:
10th mystery in this series.
Hardcover: St. Martin's Minotaur 0312319002, August 2005.
