Fresh Meat: The Shogun’s Daughter by Laura Joh Rowland
By Thomas Pluck
September 14, 2013The Shogun's Daughter by Laura Joh Rowland is the seventeenth novel featuring samurai sleuth Sano Ichirō of the court of the shogun in 17th Century Edo (available September 17, 2013). When the daughter of the shogun dies of smallpox, a power struggle erupts among the court, since she did not live to bear him heirs.…