The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi Series Book 2)

Bernard Mattson spent his life keeping the Japanese-American alliance steady. Days before a major address on the future of Asia, he is killed in his own home by a sword.

His estranged daughter Jamie comes back to Tokyo for answers, and finds that the manuscript and the speech are both gone. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu and Sakaguchi work the back alleys of Golden Gai, the old shitamachi neighborhoods and the Yokosuka naval base, looking for whatever Mattson dug out of the archives that was worth killing him for.

Second in the Detective Hiroshi series. Grand prize winner at the Chanticleer International Book Awards and named one of the best indie mysteries of the year by Kirkus Reviews.