Shinjū by Laura Joh Rowland
Shinjū

Laura Joh Rowland

367 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction historical mystery dark mysterious medium-paced
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It is January 1689 in Edo, the city that would one day become Tokyo. The bodies of a young man and a beautiful noblewoman, bound together, are dragged from the murky Sumida River: a typical shinju, a ritual double suicide committed by a pair of st...

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