Title: Black Arrow
Author: I.J. Parker
Rating:
4 stars out of 5Publisher: Penguin
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 368
Keywords: mystery, historical
Reading period: 9–16 August, 2008
Sugawara Akitada has been appointed as the governor
of a remote northern province in feudal Japan.
Aided only by a handful of retainers,
he is beset by his own doubts and hostile locals.
Winter is closing in and
he must exert his fragile authority to
rein in a mutinous baron,
while also investigating some mysterious deaths
and righting old wrongs.
Parker evokes the spare, stark beauty of Japan,
in a well-written historical mystery.