I. J. Parker's Blog – November 2010 Archive (2)

THE MASUDA AFFAIR Listed as Best of 2010

LIBRARY JOURNAL has just listed its "best genre novels of 2010". Happily, my book is among them, one of the five mysteries honored.

Lovely!

Added by I. J. Parker on November 20, 2010 at 4:16am — 6 Comments

LIBRARY JOURNAL gives THE MASUDA AFFAIR a starred review.

Yes, even if they got my gender wrong and continue to compare me to aura Joh Rowland, I was very happy to get this.

Their comment: "Once again Parker has written a moving and beautiful tale, this time involving parental love and loss of a child. His depiction of an 11th-century Japan as a brutal society in which one’s fortune is made or lost on the whim of the most powerful will appeal to historical fiction fans and readers who enjoy Laura Joh Rowland."

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Added by I. J. Parker on November 1, 2010 at 12:32am — No Comments