★★★☆☆ Honorable Mention
(Japanese Historical Fantasy) Lord Yamada and his friend visit a lake near Kyoto to see about exorcising what might be the ghost of a woman who died mysteriously. (3,672 words; Time: 12m)
"Uzumaki of the Lake," by Richard Parks [bio] (edited by Scott H. Andrews), appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies issue 300, published on March 19, 2020.
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Pro: This is a nice little mystery, set in Medieval Japan. Lord Yamada and Kenji make a good team, and they remind me a bit of Lord Darcy and Master Sean from Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy series.
Con: The solution is too easy, and the reader gets little hint of it.
There are a few problems with the Kindle version. “YΕkai” is rendered “yMkai,” for example, and “yΕ«rei” becomes “ykrei.”
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Pro: This is a nice little mystery, set in Medieval Japan. Lord Yamada and Kenji make a good team, and they remind me a bit of Lord Darcy and Master Sean from Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy series.
Con: The solution is too easy, and the reader gets little hint of it.
There are a few problems with the Kindle version. “YΕkai” is rendered “yMkai,” for example, and “yΕ«rei” becomes “ykrei.”
Other Reviews: Search Web
Richard Parks Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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Part of the Yamada Monogatari series. Incidentally, the wife died of a fever - not "mysteriously".
ReplyDeletePerhaps I should say she died of a mysterious fever. :-)
Delete:) I'd say the ghost of a neighboring lord's wife. How she died is irrelevant.
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