The Fire Kimono

Name: The Fire Kimono
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by Laura Joh Rowland

Book 13 in the Sano Ichiro Novels series.

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Edo, March 1700. A skeleton uncovered beneath a fallen tree is identified as a cousin of the shogun who vanished during the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657. Evidence links the death to Sano’s mother and to the legend of a burning kimono blamed for the disaster.

The shogun gives Sano and Reiko three days to identify the murderer. Their inquiry moves between the present court struggle and memories of a city consumed by fire, exposing false identities and family secrets protected for four decades. Clearing Sano’s mother requires proving how personal revenge was hidden inside a public catastrophe.