The Samurai Detectives: Volume 2: The Killer on the Streets

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The second volume of Ikenami's Edo-period detective series. A killer stalks the streets of Tokugawa-era Japan, and the investigators must navigate the city's rigid social hierarchies and shadowy political networks to find him. The case demands not just deductive skill but the ability to read the unwritten rules of a society where rank determines what questions you're allowed to ask — and of whom. Shotaro Ikenami's samurai detectives operate in a world where justice must be pursued through a maze of honour, obligation, and bureaucratic protocol, and where the sword at a detective's side is both a tool of law and a reminder of its limits. Crime fiction set in a world where the detective's greatest challenge isn't finding the killer — it's being permitted to arrest him.