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Laura Joh Rowland
When an unknown arsonist sets fire to a cottage on the grounds of the Black Lotus Temple, killing three sect members, 17th century samurai detective Sano Ichiro blames a deliquent…
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The heir to the shogun is found brutally murdered with samurai sleuth Sano Ichiros pregnant wife Reiko laying beside him naked and covered in blood. Sano seeks the truth behind…
It’s Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun’s court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of…
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In this sequel to The Concubine’s Tattoo , set in 17th century Japan, Most Honorable Investigator Sano Ichiro is joined by his strong-willed wife, Reiko, to unmask the murderer of…
Japan, 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies dying of smallpox, attended by her nurse. Incense burns, to banish the evil spirits of disease. After Tsuruhime…
In the aftermath of a woman’s brutal attack in 1701 Japan, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro suspects the true motives of a formerly exiled rival who has been oddly…
In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichir No races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun’s regimeJapan, 1703. A devastating earthquake has left the city…
From award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland, a story about the darkness that lurks within and the deadly secrets that beg to be revealed.
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Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer in Whitechapel, and her close-knit circle of unlikely friends find themselves in Jack the Ripper’s sights in The Ripper’s Shadow, the first in a captivating…
In 17th-century Japan. Sano Inchiro, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, and his wife Reiko, are hot on the heels of a mysterious courtesan who has vanished with…
Riveting and richly imagined, with a magnificent sense of time and place, The Iris Fan is the triumphant conclusion to Laura Joh Rowland’s brilliant series of thrillers set in feudal…
The sequel to the acclaimed novel Shinju again features detective Sano Ichiro as he trails a serial killer stalking feudal Japan.
The fantastic first book in Laura Joh Rowland’s 17th Century mystery series featuring Sano Ichiro
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The Sano Ichiro mysteries, set in seventeenth century Japan
When a mutilated ‘Sleeping Beauty’ washes up on the banks of the Thames in Victorian London, crime scene photographer Sarah Bain sets out to find the killer
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Sarah Bain must confront her own ghosts and face her most elusive and deadly adversary yet…
Award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland is back with the sixth in her critically acclaimed Victorian Mystery series in which Sarah must search for the killer of a woman she found…
Back in print, the debut novel by the author of The Samurai’s Wife presents an imaginative mystery that brings to life the lush and wondrous world of 17th-century Japan and…
While investigating the murder of a woman whose torso has been found, crime photographer and investigator Sarah Bain Barrett is pitted against a bitter enemy who is hell-bent on discovering…
Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, forty-seven fiercely determined warriors murder the man at the centre of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless r No nin two…
London, April 1891. When the severed torso of a woman washes up on the bank of the river Thames, London believes a serial killer from the past has struck again…
