Shinjū (novel)

Shinjū (1994) is the title of the debut novel by American writer Laura Joh Rowland, a historical mystery set in 1689 Genroku-era Japan. It is the first in Rowland's Sano Ichirō series. The plot follow Sano, a yoriki (a lower-ranking police officer) as he investigates a double murder disguised as a lovers' suicide, and in the process, uncovers a plot to assassinate Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.