Deze auteur is gevierd om zijn meeslepende mysteryreeks met een ninja-detective in de hoofdrol. Hun verhalen combineren vakkundig historische settings met intrigerende puzzels, tot leven gebracht door een onwaarschijnlijk rechercheursduo. Het werk kenmerkt zich door een unieke verkenning van culturele dynamieken, waarbij verhalen vol spanning en actie worden verweven.
This inspiring memoir follows California attorney Susan Spann as she climbs one hundred Japanese mountains in a year, confronting cancer and her fears. Through humor and vivid storytelling, she chronicles her transformative journey from timidity to confidence, capturing the beauty of Japan and her path to healing.
Edo, February 1566: when a samurai’s corpse is discovered in the ruins of a burned-out bookshop, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Jesuit Father Mateo must determine whether the shopkeeper and his young apprentice are innocent victims or assassins in disguise. The investigation quickly reveals dangerous ties to Hiro’s past, which threaten not only Edo’s fledgling booksellers’ guild, but the very survival of Hiro’s ninja clan. With an arsonist on the loose, and a murderer stalking the narrow streets, Hiro and Father Mateo must save the guild—and themselves—from a conflagration that could destroy them all.
"Master ninja Hiro Hattori and Jesuit Father Mateo head up to Mount Koya, only to find themselves embroiled in yet another mystery, this time in a Shingon Buddhist temple atop one of Japan's most sacred peaks. November, 1565: Master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo travel to a Buddhist temple at the summit of Mount Koya, carrying a secret message for an Iga spy posing as a priest on the sacred mountain. When a snowstorm strikes the peak, a killer begins murdering the temple's priests and posing them as Buddhist judges of the afterlife--the Kings of Hell. Hiro and Father Mateo must unravel the mystery before the remaining priests--including Father Mateo--become unwilling members of the killer's grisly council of the dead"--