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Roman Blood
Steven Saylor
Progress: 171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Bob Spitz
Progress: 208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Serge Fauchereau
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Julius Caesar
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Songs of the Kings
Barry Unsworth
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Alan Lee

Rashomon Gate

Rashomon Gate - I.J. Parker This is the second book featuring Sugawara Akitada, 11th century detective in Medieval Japan. Much like Van Gulik Judge Ti, Sugawara's case are inspired from stories of that time. In this we find young Akitada, back in his ministry job and being bored. An old teacher of his asks for help in a blackmail scheme at his old university. Akitada finds himself at the center of three murders that will take the reader for an amazing ride.I liked this mystery novel. I haven't read the first novel in this series, but I like that you do not need to read them in chronological order to enjoy the action, the historical background, the culture. One tiny thing, it has a very modern rythmn, the style is modern and it might annoy some readers didn't bother me at all.