Island of Exiles: A Mystery of Early Japan

When the exiled Prince Oksada is poisoned while confined to the penal colony on Sado Island, Sugawara Akitada is called in by the emperor's minions to take on an undercover investigation into the crime, but when he stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy, his own life could be forfeit, in a mystery set against the backdrop of eleventh-century Japan. Original. 30,000 first printing.