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Name: The Assassin's Touch

Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Year: 2005
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Popularity: 1.3
Genres/categories: Mystery, , Historical fiction, Fiction
Culture: Japan

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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 investigation of her own: a beautiful, proud, and hopelessly poor woman has confessed to murdering her family. Yet the pieces do not fit, and as Reiko looks deeper into the woman's life as a hinin?a moral outcast, shunned by the world?inexplicable connections appear between her investigation and Sano's.
 
As Reiko's questions spiral her further into the squalor of life as a hinin, Sano and Hirata?his most loyal samurai?pursure their prey, uncovering an intricate tapestry of betrayal woven into the highest levels of the new regime. But they are no match for the one who has mastered dim-mak, a warrior who will strike all those who cross him or his path--even Reiko.
 
"Elegantly told and interspersed with delicious bits of history" (Kirkus Reviews), Laura Joh Rowland's The Assassin's Touch is a mystery you won't want to miss.
This book is part of the "Sano Ichiro" series.
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The Samurai's Wife
First published 2000
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, Pop Rating:1.5/10
Black Lotus
First published 2001
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, Pop Rating:1.4/10
Shinju
First published 1994
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, Pop Rating:2/10
The Way of the Traitor
First published 1997
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, Pop Rating:1.4/10
Bundori
First published 1996
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, Pop Rating:1.7/10
The Incense Game
First published 2012
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, Pop Rating:1.2/10
The Iris Fan
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, Pop Rating:1.2/10
The Shogun's Daughter
First published 2013
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, Pop Rating:1.2/10
The Cloud Pavilion
First published 2009
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, Pop Rating:1.1/10
The Ronin's Mistress
First published 2011
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, Pop Rating:1.1/10
The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria
First published 2002
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, Pop Rating:1.4/10
The Perfumed Sleeve
First published 2004
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