Laura Joh Rowland

The Ronin's Mistress Laura Joh Rowland

Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, 47 warriors murder the man at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revengebut why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they should not immediately be ordered to commit ritual suicide? Sano Ichiro, demoted from Chamberlain to his old post as Most Honorable Investigator ofEvents, Situations, and People, has mere days to solve the greatest mystery of samurai legendwhile his own fortunes hang in the balance.