title: Claws of the Cat: A Shinobi Mystery
author:  Susan Spann 
description: Make way for another mystery series set in feudal Japan. Laura Joh Rowlands Sano Ichiro series has the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries pretty well staked out, and I. J. Parkers Sugawara Akitadas beat is the eleventh century. Hiro, the ninja-sleuth in Spanns debut, lives in the sixteenth century. A samurai is murderednot just any samurai but also a police officer. The likely culprit, a young teahouse entertainer, claims she didnt kill the man. But the victim has some highly placed relatives, including his instantly dislikable policeman son, and Hiro wonders if hell have enough time to prove the girls innocence before the sentence is passed. Hiro is an intriguing character; unlike Ichiro and Akitada, he isnt an official investigator. However, his ostensible job, as protector to a Jesuit priest, gives him the opportunity to look into the policemans murder (while Father Mateo, the priest, serves as a sort of beard and sidekick). Different enough from Rowlands and Parkers popular series and set in a mostly untapped period of Japanese history, the book should do well with fans of those writers. --David Pitt
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  # Claws & Wings
  
  
  ## A Young Adult Reverse Harem Fantasy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Catherine Banks
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Claws & Wings by Catherine Banks.
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 Catherine Banks
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Cover design by Fantasia Cover Designs.
  
  
  Published by Turbo Kitten Industries.
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are
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