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<p><P><b>A tangled web of deceit strikes very close to home in this new mystery of ancient Japan featuring Sugawara Akitada</b><P>Eleventh-century Japan is the expertly realized setting for I. J. Parker's ingenious mystery series featuring sleuth Sugawara Akitada. In <i>The Hell Screen</i>, Akitada is on his way to the bedside of his dying mother when bad weather forces him to take refuge in a temple whose central treasure is a brilliantly painted hell screen. Perhaps its violent imagery influences his dreams&#58; that night he is awakened by a scream. It's only after Akitada returns to a scene of domestic unhappiness and scandal that the significance of that cry becomes clear. For while he slept, a woman was murdered, and now he must find her killer.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Fascinating historical detail and well-drawn characters distinguish Shamus-winner Parker's second Japanese mystery (after 2002's well-received Rashomon Gate). On his way back to the capital city of Heian Kyo (now Kyoto), Lord Sugawara Akitada, a government official with a knack for stumbling into crime, stops at a monastery to shake off the cold and get a few hours sleep. Other guests of the Buddhist mo

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Author

Parker, I. J.

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143035626

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, History

Rating

3.96 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13