Japan, 1704.
She lives in New York City..
The Incense Game won the RT Book Reviews Reviewers\' Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery.
About the Author: LAURA JOH Rowland is the author of sixteen previous novels in her acclaimed series of thrillers set in feudal Japan; two of them have been named among the Best Mysteries of the Year by Publishers Weekly , while a third was declared one of the five best historical mystery novels by The Wall Street Journal .
Laura Joh Rowland\'s thrilling series set in Feudal Japan is as gripping and entertaining as ever.
And this time, they may not survive the day.
Instead, he and his family become the accused.
When Sano learns that Tsuruhime\'s death may have been a murder, he sets off on a dangerous investigation that leads to more death and destruction as he struggles to keep his pregnant wife, Reiko, and his son safe.
Sano doubts that Yoshisato is really the Shogun\'s son, believing it\'s more likely a power-play by Yanagisawa.
Yanagisawa is also the longtime enemy of Sano Ichiro.
Until five months ago, Yoshisato was raised as the illegitimate son of Yanagisawa, the shogun\'s favorite advisor.
Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles caused by the recent earthquake, he names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered was his.
There will be no grandchild to leave the kingdom.
After Tsuruhime takes her last breath, the old woman watching from the doorway says, "Who\'s going to tell the Shogun his Daughter is dead?" The death of the Shogun\'s Daughter has immediate consequences on his regime.
Incense burns, to banish the evil spirits of disease.
Smallpox pustules cover her face.
In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed, attended by her nurse.
Japan, 1704
