num_pages: 437
description: When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love. Everyone but newly appointed yoriki Sano Ichiro.Despite the official verdict and warnings from his superiors, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People suspects the deaths weren't just a tragedy; they were murder. Risking his family's good name and his own life, Sano will search for a killer across every level of society determined to find answers to a mystery no one wants solved. No one but Sano...As subtle and beautiful as the culture it evokes, Shinju vividly re-creates a world of ornate tearooms and gaudy pleasure-palaces, cloistered mountaintop convents and deathly prisons. Part love story, part mystery, Shinju is a tour that will dazzle and entertain all who enter its world.
language: English
title: Shinju
titlecomplete: Shinju (Sano Ichiro, #1)
genres: Historical Mystery, Historical, Mystery, Japan, Asia, Detective, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 3856
places: Tokyo
series: Sano Ichiro
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Hammett Prize
publisher: HarperTorch