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Fiction Careful what you eat! BETRAYAL AT IGA: A Hiro Hattori Novel By Susan Spann 256 pp. Seventh Street Books Reviewed by Eric Petersen Mystery writer Susan Spann is back with the fifth entry (the previous entry, The Ninja’s Daughter, is also reviewed on this site) in her series of mysteries set in a most unusual time and place and featuring a most unusual pair of sleuths. The time and place is 16 th -century Japan, and the sleuths are Hiro Hattori, an honorable samurai and deadly shinobi (ninja) warrior, and Father Mateo, the Portuguese Jesuit priest for whom Hiro has been hired by an unknown party to serve as a bodyguard and translator. Hiro is impressed by the foreign priest’s intelligence and courage, while Father Mateo is impressed by the shinobi warrior’s wisdom, compassion, and devotion to honor and justice. The two men have become close friends and acquired well deserved reputations for solving baffling murders and bringing killers to justice. Betrayal At Iga opens with Hir...