Sano Ichiro, the Shogun\'s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, has his doubts about the partnership that he and his spirited new wife, Reiko, have forged: While he can\'t help recognizing that her help on his cases can be invaluable, he sometimes longs for a more traditional wife.
She lived through a natural disaster when Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed her house in New Orleans, and now lives in New York City..
About the Author: LAURA JOH Rowland is the author of the Sano Ichiro mysteries (The Ronin\'s Mistress, The Incense Game, The Shogun\'s Daughter, etc.), which have been named Best Mysteries of the Year by Publishers Weekly and won RT Book Review Reviewers\' Choice Awards.
Rowland\'s series "positively smokes with historical atmospherics" (Publishers Weekly), and THE SAMURAI\'S Wife is her most intricate and compelling novel to date.
Still, when a botched case and the resulting loss of face send Sano to the Imperial city to find a killer whose methods are as terrifying as they are elusive, Sano needs the talents of his Wife more than ever to inflitrate the emperor\'s inner circle.
Sano Ichiro, the Shogun\'s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, has his doubts about the partnership that he and his spirited new wife, Reiko, have forged: While he can\'t help recognizing that her help on his cases can be invaluable, he sometimes longs for a more traditional wife
