Laura Joh Rowland
Bedlam: The Further Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
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In this Victorian mystery-thriller historical, demure but spirited heroine Charlotte Brontë once again races breathlessly through England, France and Ireland accompanied by the ...Read Review
The Fire Kimono
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Tokyo, March, 1700: a storm uproots a huge tree near a Shinto shrine, nearly injuring an elderly priest and uncovering a royal corpse. The ...Read Review
The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte
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Three talented, young sisters are forced to publish under a male pseudonym in Victorian England. Fearing exposure after an accusation of plagiarism, Charlotte ...Read Review
The Snow Empress
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Sano Ichiro, the Shogun’s favorite detective, finds himself entwined in Japan’s political machinations. The year is 1699, one Sano will not soon ...Read Review
The Red Chrysanthemum
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Sano Ichiro, chamberlain to the shōgun, finds himself in the most difficult situation he’s ever faced (and he’s faced some—...Read Review
The Assassin’s Touch
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In the page-turning climax of her tenth Inspector Sano mystery, Rowland locks us in a remote villa with Sano and the Assassin. It ...Read Review
The Perfumed Sleeve
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This is the ninth outing for the medieval Japanese detective and his intrepid wife, sort of a Macmillan and Wife or Hart to ...Read Review
The Pillowbook of Lady Wisteria
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The Pillowbook of Lady Wisteria is the seventh in Rowland’s popular series of Japanese murder mysteries featuring samurai Sano Ichiro and his ...Read Review
Black Lotus
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Rowland’s latest novel of 17th century Japan will not disappoint her readers. Samurai detective Sano Ichiro’s newest case plunges him and ...Read Review
The Samurai’s Wife
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Normally the most absorbing aspect of even a historical whodunit is the plot, but in Rowland’s superb Sano and Reiko series her ...Read Review
