The Incense Game: A Novel of Feudal Japan (Sano Ichiro Novels Book 16)

In The Incense Game, Laura Joh Rowland's powerful and evocative thriller, Sano Ichiro and his wife strive to solve the case in a world that is crumbling around them. An RT Book Review Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award Winner In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime Japan, 1703. A devastating earthquake has left the city of Edo in shambles—even the shogun's carefully regulated court is teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation. But when Sano discovers the bodies of two young sisters buried beneath the rubble, he suspects that incense poisoning, not the earthquake, killed them. Worse yet, their father, a powerful nobleman, threatens to topple the vulnerable regime unless Sano agrees to track down his daughters' killer. With the help of his wife, Reiko, and his chief retainer, Hirata, Sano begins a secret investigation that jeopardizes his whole family. And with Hirata mysteriously neglecting his duties and an old foe plotting to overthrow Sano and the shogun himself, the shockwaves from the earthquake are only the beginning. Winner of RT Magazine's Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichiro races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime When a massive earthquake devastates 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 from incense poisoning and their father threatens to topple the regime unless Sano Ichiro tracks down the killer. As Sano and his wife strive to solve the case in a world that is crumbling around them, Laura Joh Rowland author of one of the "five best historical mystery novels" "(The Wall Street Journal) "brings us her most powerful and evocative thriller set in Feudal Japan yet, "The Incense Game.""

In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichirō races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime

 

When a massive earthquake devastates 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 from incense poisoning and their father threatens to topple the regime unless Sano Ichiro tracks down the killer.

As Sano and his wife strive to solve the case in a world that is crumbling around them, Laura Joh Rowland—author of one of the "five best historical mystery novels" (The Wall Street Journal)—brings us her most powerful and evocative thriller yet, The Incense Game.

 

Une fiction romanesque inspirée de la série télévisée et du film d'animation éponymes relatant la guerre galactique qui oppose la République (le clan des Jedis et des clones) et les forces séparatistes (le clan des Sith et des droïdes). Une aventure qui se déroule entre les épisodes 2 ("L'attaque des clones") et 3 ("La revanche des Sith") de la saga originale. En introduction sont proposées quelques informations sur les protagonistes, leurs pouvoirs, leurs armes, leurs ennemis et leur univers. [SDM] Les choses se compliquent pour le groupe de Nuru... L'Aristocra se considère comme leur prisonnière, ce qui blesse le padawan. Après tout, c'est la première fois qu'il rencontre quelqu'un de sa race. et il se révèle être impossible de discuter avec elle ! Mais il y a pire encore. Le vaisseau croise la route de dangereux pirates ! Comment le petit groupe va-t-il pouvoir s'en sortir ? When the shogun's carefully regulated court is thrown into chaos by a massive earthquake in 1703 Japan, Sano Ichiro investigates the poisoning murders of a nobleman's daughters to prevent the regime's take takeover Un produit dérivé abondamment illustré de vignettes tirées de l'animé. [SDM]