Amid the political machinations of feudal Japan, Sano faces a daunting, complex investigation.
Twenty months spent as the shogun's most honourable investigator of events, situations and people have left Sano weary. He looks forward to the comforts of his arranged marriage and month's holiday to celebrate the union with his new wife. However, the death of the shogun's favourite concubine interrupts the couple's wedding ceremony as Sano is recalled to perform his duty.
After Sano traces the cause of Lady Harume's death to a self-inflicted tattoo, his must travel into the cloistered world of the shogun's women to untangle the complicated web of Harume's lovers, rivals and troubled past, and identify her killer.
- ISBN10 0312969228
- ISBN13 9780312969226
- Publish Date 15 April 2000 (first published 1 December 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 376
- Language English