Flask of the Drunken Master
A Hiro Hattori Novel
Seventh Street Books · Print & ebook · June 11, 2019
Master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo investigate the death of a Kyoto brewer.
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- Who it’s for
- A historical mystery pairs a brewing-house murder with political danger in Kyoto, 1565.
- Themes
- Murder investigation, Threats to family livelihood, Political uncertainty
- Pacing
- Fast
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Master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo investigate the death of a Kyoto brewer. August 1565: When a rival artisan turns up dead outside Ginjiro's brewery, and all the evidence implicates the brewer, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo must find the killer before the magistrate executes Ginjiro and seizes the brewery, leaving his wife and daughter destitute.
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A missing merchant, a vicious debt collector, and a female moneylender join Ginjiro and the victim's spendthrift son on the suspect list. But with Kyoto on alert in the wake of the shogun's recent death, a rival shinobi on the prowl, and samurai threatening Hiro and Father Mateo at every turn, Ginjiro's life is not the only one in danger. Will Hiro and Father Mateo unravel the clues in time to save Ginjiro's life, or will the shadows gathering over Kyoto consume the detectives as well as the brewer?
Clues in Kyoto
A historical mystery pairs a brewing-house murder with political danger in Kyoto, 1565.
Come here for
- A tangled suspect list around a brewer accused of murder
- Ninja and Jesuit investigators working amid Kyoto’s tensions
Expect
- A rigorous whodunit with danger close at hand
- Historical intrigue alongside the search for a killer
Where it sits
| Historical Mystery | 91% |
|---|---|
| Historical Fiction | 56% |
| Cozy Mysteries | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Fiction
- Historical Mystery
- Crime Fiction
- Authors
- Susan Spann
- Publisher
- Seventh Street Books
- Published
- June 11, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Murder investigation · Threats to family livelihood · Political uncertainty
- Reading lane
- Historical Fiction