Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm.
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My Teaser for this week is from
Flask Of The Drunken Master
A Shinobi Mystery
by Susan Spann
My Teaser from page 89 in the Hardcover.
“You were asleep when the murder happened,” Hiro said.
“I’m a dangerous man,” Suke replied. “Lehtal, even in slumber.”
“Maybe so,” Hiro said with a sigh, “but the evidence says you’re not the killer.”
Suke’s arms fell down to his sides. “You’re sure it wasn’t me?”
Read on if you want to know more.
Synopsis
Master ninja Hiro Hattori and his companion Father Mateo are once again pulled into a murder investigation when a rival artisan turns up dead outside of their friend Ginjiro’s sake brewery. They must find the killer before the magistrate executes Ginjiro, seizes the brewery, and renders his family destitute. All the evidence implicates the brewer, yet with Kyoto on alert in the wake of the shogun’s recent death, Ginjiro’s is not the only life at risk.
As tensions rise, Hiro investigates a missing merchant, a vicious debt collector, a moneylender and the victim’s spendthrift son. But when a drunken Buddhist monk insists on helping Hiro and Father Mateo solve the crime, the monk’s bumbling threatens to foil the investigation altogether. With time running out, Hiro once again gambles on a clandestine mission to find the truth. Except that this time, Hiro isn’t the only one with a secret mission to fulfill.
Flask of the Drunken Master is the latest entry in Susan Spann’s thrilling 16th century Japanese mystery series, sure to gain new fans and please old alike.
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