LAURA JOH ROWLAND

Una luminosa mañana de septiembre de 1693, los habitantes de Tokio son despertados por la campana de incendios. El fuego ha prendido en una cabaña del Loto Negro, un templo budista situado en las proximidades del castillo de Edo, desde donde el sogún Tokugawa Tsunayoshi gobierna Japón. Y cuando una de las víctimas resulta ser el jefe de la polic...

It is a lost art, passed down by the ancients in great secrecy: "Dim-mak." It is death, by the lightest touch of a finger,"" Sano Ichiro, tenuous in the new regime as the shogun's second-in-command, does not have the luxury of skepticism?another senior official is dead, a fingerprint lightly glazed into his skin. Sano's wife Reiko has an inves...

After their son is kidnapped, Samurai detective Sano Ichiro and his wife, Reiko, set off on a desperate search, only to find themselves caught up in an intricate scheme involving racial tensions, jealous husbands, and murderous intrigue.