Dale Furutani, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-688-15817-0
The Anthony and Macavity Award-winning author of Death in Little Tokyo (1996) and The Toyotomi Blades (1997) moves back in time with his third mystery, a quietly reflective historical puzzler set in early-17th-century Japan. Matsuyama Kaze is a...
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Dale Furutani, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-688-15818-7
The second installment in Furutani's samurai trilogy (following the Anthony Award-winning Death at the Crossroads) has a startlingly modern sensibility. As ronin Matsuyama Kaze follows the Tokaido Road in search of his beloved Lady's kidnapped nine-y
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Dale Furutani, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-688-15819-4
Anthony and Macavity award winner Furutani manages a fluid mix of cultural history and swashbuckling adventure--the swordplay conjures memories of Sabatini--in this concluding volume of the Samurai Mystery Trilogy (Death at the Crossroads; Jade...
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Dale Furutani, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-17050-9
The second appearance of L.A. computer programmer and reluctant sleuth Ken Tanaka is more travelogue than mystery. Publicity over his crime-solving role in his first outing (Death in Little Tokyo) nets Tanaka an invitation to Japan to take part in a
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Dale Furutani, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14580-4
Furutani gives a short course on Japanese-American culture on the West Coast in this pedantic, occasionally poetic debut. Unemployed computer programmer Ken Tanaka rents an office and fixes it up to look like a detective's office in order to host an
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