[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: A medicine wholesaler in Nihonbashi is robbed of its money and goods, and eight members of a family are slain. Hayato Nagatsuki, a secret agent, notices that the bandits appear on windy nights, and that they have something in common with the Yami gang, a gang of bandits who have been active in Edo in the past. Then, a young man named Ayaji appears before Hayato. Ayaji's parents were killed by the Yami gang, and he has volunteered t...
underwhelming historical crime fiction
(Review date: November 2010)
This book is in the historical crime fiction genre; it looks like it's one of a series of books featuring the same lead character, 長月隼人. Hayato is a 隠密廻り同心, which, as the book helpfully explains, is the kind of Edo-period policeman responsible for investigating the nastier and more complicated cases; he's also an accomplished swordsman. This time around the case he has to solve is a series of crimes committed by a gang of thieves whose m.o. is to break into merchant