The Fires of the Gods
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In 11th-century Japan, Sugawara Akitada's ailing wife is expecting a child, and when he loses his job and tries to confront the nobleman who is responsible for his dismissal, he ends up suspected of his murder. With no income and a growing family to support, Akitada desperately plunges into the investigation of this crime, aided by his faithful servant Tora, inadvertently placing not only his own life, but also the lives of his wife and child, in grave danger.
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SERIES
Akitada series
8.
PUBLISHED
Sutton : Severn House, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 247 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780727869890 (hbk.)
0727869892 (hbk.)
9781847513212 (trade pbk.)
1847513212 (trade pbk.)
SUBJECTS
Sugawara Akitada (Fictitious character)
Public officers -- Fiction.
Arson investigation -- Japan -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Japan -- Fiction.
Japan -- History -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Historical fiction.