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.
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