Laura Joh Rowland

River of Fallen Angels (A Victorian Mystery)

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Amateur sleuth Sarah Barrett is on the chase again in London, this time in 1891 as she and her associates attempt to solve the ...Read Review

Garden of Sins: A Victorian Mystery

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This action-packed suspense novel is set in London in November 1890, a time when fear of Jack the Ripper was still widespread. It is ...Read Review

Portrait of Peril: A Victorian Mystery

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Rowland opens the fifth in the Victorian mystery series centered on Sarah Bain at the photographer/sleuth’s long-anticipated wedding to Det. Sgt. ...Read Review

The Woman in the Veil: A Victorian Mystery

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In London, during the early summer of 1890, crime scene photographer Sarah Bain, along with her assistants Lord Hugh Staunton and young Mick O’...Read Review

The Hangman’s Secret: A Victorian Mystery

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Sara Bain returns in Rowland’s third installment of her Victorian Mystery series (after A Mortal Likeness), and this time Sara and her ...Read Review

A Mortal Likeness

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1889, London: Sarah Bain, a photographer turned private detective, and Lord Hugh Staunton, her business partner, accept what they expect to be a run-of-the-mill ...Read Review

The Ripper’s Shadow

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2017

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Sarah Bain, taught by her now-missing activist father, is a photographer in Whitechapel, London, in 1888. Struggling in her profession, she takes erotic photos ...Read Review

The Iris Fan

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Japan, 1709. On a dark and stormy night, an unthinkable crime occurs: The shogun is stabbed with an iron-ribbed fan while sleeping in his ...Read Review

The Shogun’s Daughter

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Shogun’s daughter has died a victim of smallpox, and with her the possibility of an heir. But all is not lost! ...Read Review

The Ronin’s Mistress: A Novel of Feudal Japan

By Laura Joh Rowland - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Sano Ichiro, the heroic investigator of this novel, has been demoted from chancellor to investigator because of the machinations of Yanigisawa, now the ...Read Review