{"product_id":"the-kubizuka-case-hale-knight-9798235720381","title":"The Kubizuka Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapan is falling apart. A puppet Emperor. Warlords at each other's throats. And somewhere in the northern fog, the dead are walking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspector Kenshi investigates crimes for the imperial court. He is methodical, precise, and privately devastated - his wife Yuki was murdered twelve months ago, her hands folded by someone who was in no hurry. He has not cried since. He has not stopped working since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe difference is that Yuki still talks to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a lord's entire wedding feast is found dead - blue-lipped, cups still raised - Kenshi is dispatched to investigate. What begins as a poisoning case opens into something far older and far worse: a decapitated warlord whose head refused to decompose, a cult three centuries in the making, and a resurrection that will tear the empire apart if Kenshi cannot find the thread in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thread leads back to Yuki. To what she knew. To why she was silenced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Kubizuka Case\u003c\/em\u003e is a feudal Japanese detective novel with the cold precision of Sherlock Holmes, the dark mythological sweep of a Kurosawa epic, and a ghost wife who is smarter than everyone in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hale Knight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235720381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dolmenwood Good Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Hale Knight","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084183838975,"sku":"9798235720381","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-kubizuka-case-hale-knight-9798235720381","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}