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Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 12
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After his eight-year-old son disappears from a moon-watching party, samurai detective Sano Ichirō strikes a deal to get him back by solving the murder of his political rival's mistress.
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Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 17
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Japan, 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed. The death of the Shogun's daughter has immediate consequences on his regime. Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles, he names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered was his. Until five months ago, Yoshisato was raised as the illegitimate son of Yanagisawa, the shogun's favorite advisor. Yanagisawa is also the longtime...
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London, November 1890. Crime-scene photographer Sarah Bain Barrett faces a perfect storm of events. She and her husband Detective Sergeant Barrett are riding on a train that crashes. While rescuing other passengers, they find a woman who's been strangled to death. Their search for her identity and her killer lead them to Cremorne Gardens, a seedy riverside pleasure park that's a combination carnival, theater, freak show, and museum of oddities. It's...
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Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 16
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When a massive earthquake devestates Japan in 1703, even the shogun's carefully regulated court is left teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation - except when a nobleman's daughters are found dead and their father threatens to topple the regime unless Sano Ichiro tracks down the killer. Sano and his wife strive to solve the case in a world that is crumbling around them.
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Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 13
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When a skeleton believed to be that of the shogun's cousin who disappeared forty years earlier is discovered Ichiro Sano and his wife Reiko must work to clear the name of Sano's mother who has been implicated in the murder.
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Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 10
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In 17th century Japan, a former criminal investigator Sano Ichirō is assigned a case involving the mysterious deaths of high-ranking officials. Meanwhile his wife, Reiko, attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her parents and sister, and Reiko is asked by the magistrate to prove the woman's guilt or innocence. While investigating, the couple comes to the realization that both cases are somehow connected.
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