The Samurai Detectives: Volume 3: The Man in the Mist

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The third volume in Ikenami's series finds the investigators pursuing a figure who moves through Edo like mist — present, elusive, and impossible to grasp. The case requires tracking a suspect through a city of over a million people, in an era when surveillance meant informants, intuition, and an intimate knowledge of which alleys led where. Shotaro Ikenami's procedural fiction captures the texture of Tokugawa-era law enforcement with the detail of a historian and the pacing of a thriller. The detectives are bound by codes their quarry is not. A mystery wrapped in fog — where the hardest part of the investigation is not finding the truth but seeing through the world that obscures it.