By Laura Joh Rowland
Japan, 1701. A terrified girl is brutally attacked amid a swirling hurricane of clouds. in the meantime, at Edo fort, samurai detective became chamberlain, Sano Ichiro, is suspicious of his previous rival, Yanagisawa, who has been oddly cooperative due to the fact that coming back from exile. yet simply as Yanagisawa's real factors start to emerge, Sano's estranged uncle involves him for support: His daughter has disappeared, and he begs Sano and his spouse, Reiko―who as soon as suffered during the kidnapping in their personal son―to locate her prior to it's too late.
Publishers Weekly calls Laura Joh Rowland's The Cloud Pavilion "One of the easiest mysteries of the year."
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He may need missed something,” Sano stated, then addressed the watchman on the gate. “I’m trying to find a lacking woman,” he begun. The watchman was once a tender peasant; he’d been talking to a tea-seller who’d positioned down his bucket and cups and stopped to relaxation. His around face blanched with fright. “I haven’t visible her, I swear! ” He fell to his knees, bowed, and cringed, nearly in tears. “I haven’t performed whatever flawed! ” “If you haven’t performed whatever improper, then why are you so afraid? ” Sano requested. The tea-seller, an older guy with the bluff, convinced air of a highway service provider, stated, “Because of that different samurai who got here through the day before today, asking a few lacking girl. He and his squaddies roughed up an individual they idea was once hiding anything or who didn’t resolution speedy sufficient. ” Dismay unfold via Sano. “Who was once he? ” “I don’t be aware of. He didn’t hassle to introduce himself. He had deep wrinkles the following, and right here. ” The tea-seller drew his finger throughout his brow and down his cheeks. “Major Kumazawa,” Sano stated grimly. The tea-seller gestured on the watchman. “He gave my negative buddy the following relatively a beating. ” “It appears like your uncle hasn’t precisely smoothed the best way for us,” Marume stated. “I know the way determined he has to be to discover his daughter,” Fukida stated, “but beating up witnesses won’t aid. ” Sano had notion this is able to be one research he might behavior with no interference. “My apologies for what occurred to you,” he stated to the watchman. “Now inform me if you’ve visible a wierd girl wandering by way of herself, or being pressured to compliment an individual, or taking a look as though she have been in hassle. ” The watchman swore that he hadn’t. So did the tea-seller. “She’s thirty-three years previous, and he or she was once donning a lavender kimono with small white plant life on it,” Sano acknowledged. He’d requested his uncle what outfits Chiyo were donning. “Think challenging. Are you yes you haven’t noticeable a girl who matched that description? ” either males stated they have been. Sano believed them. He and his comrades moved on, alongside a highway of food-stalls. owners grilled eels, prawns, and squid on skewers over open hearths, boiled pots of rice, noodles, and soup. aromatic steam and smoke billowed into the drizzle. “I’m hungry,” Marume acknowledged. “You consistently are,” Fukida acknowledged. Sano hadn’t eaten due to the fact that morning, sooner than the event. He and his males acquired nutrition. once they ate, they puzzled extra humans. They quickly realized that significant Kumazawa and his troops had already gone through the entire sector that surrounded the temple, intimidating, torturing, and offending far and wide. And Sano’s makes an attempt to track Chiyo proved as futile as his uncle’s. “No, I haven’t obvious her,” stated one seller, shopkeeper, and peddler after one other. “Nobody’s hiding a girl on my block,” acknowledged the headmen of each road. “Major Kumazawa threatened to have my head bring to a halt if I didn’t support him locate his daughter, so I’ve been searching for her on my rounds,” stated a doshin—police patrol officer. “I’ve wondered each person I’ve met, yet no good fortune. ” “It’s having a look as though she left the district,” Sano acknowledged as he and his males led their horses via an alley, “whether on her personal or opposed to her will.