The Fire Kimono
- ISBN-10
- 031237948X
- ISBN-13
- 9780312379483
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 297
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-11-11
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Laura Joh Rowland
Description
As the conflict between Sano Ichiro and his enemies escalates, the samurai detective and his wife, Reiko, are called in by the shogun to investigate a mysterious skeleton, in a case that forces them to confront perilous, long-buried secrets, including the involvement of Sano's own mother in an arson fire, started by a burning kimono, that nearly destroyed the city. 25,000 first printing.
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