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Laura Joh Rowland
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Der Feuerkimono Sano Ichirōs Dreizehnter Fall (2010)

This is the 13th book in the Sano Ichiro series. A human skeleton is found when a tree near a Shinto shrine is knocked down. In the city troops attack Reiko, Sano's wife and they wore the crest of Lord Matsudaira which is Sano's greatest enemy. Lord Matsudaira's family compound is attacked with a...

Der Feuerkimono Sano Ichirōs Dreizehnter Fall (2010) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Ronin's Mistress (2011)

I've read four of Rowland's Sano Ichiro series and this is the best one so far. Rowland incorporates the legend of the 47 ronin and creates an intriguing mystery against the backdrop of the Tokugawa Shogunate at the dawn of the 18th century. Yanasigawa and the recently demoted Sano find themselve...

The Ronin's Mistress (2011) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria (2003)

I'm really confused on what I want to award this book. I'm wavering between three and four stars, and I wish I could just make it easier and give it 3.5, but Goodreads won't let me. I want to give it the higher number because it's as well written and tightly plotted as any of the previous books i...

The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria (2003) by Laura Joh Rowland
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Bundori (1997)

Bundori is the next book after Shinju (set three months later), where Sano has risen to the post of sosakan-sama, the shogun's special investigator. He is still the outsider, as he does not have the background or family connections that his peers do. He is still learning of his duties when he i...

Bundori (1997) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Snow Empress (2007)

Japan, 1699. On a moonlit night in Ezogashima, the northernmost island of Japan, a woman is running through the forest when an arrow zooms out of the darkness to strike her dead. Meanwhile, a world away in the city of Edo, the eight-year-old son of Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen...

The Snow Empress (2007) by Laura Joh Rowland
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Red Chrysanthemum (2006)

Laura Joh Rowland recreates the Edo era in Japanese history with the kind of machinations and political intrigue that one would expect in one of Sharon Kay Penman’s historical novels based in Medieval England. Then, she manages to weave the intricate pas de deux of a married couple where both par...

Red Chrysanthemum (2006) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Assassin's Touch (2006)

It is a lost art, passed down by the ancients in great secrecy: Dim-mak. It is death, by the lightest touch of a finger. Sano Ichiro, tenuous in the new regime as the shogun’s second-in-command, does not have the luxury of skepticism?another senior official is dead, a fingerprint lightly glazed i...

The Assassin's Touch (2006) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Perfumed Sleeve (2005)

The Sano Ichiro mysteries take place during the Tokugawa Shogunate and this time Sano receives a posthumous request from an old enemy to have his death investigated just in case he was murdered. At the same time there's a power struggle to control the weak-willed Shogun and both factions want San...

The Perfumed Sleeve (2005) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Concubine's Tattoo (2000)

I picked up the Concubine's Tattoo over the holidays with the plan of reading the next of the Sano Ichiro mysteries soon. With the start of the New Year, I delved into the book and found myself drawn forward. I was not disappointed.The book begins in Edo, days after Sano Ichiro's return from Naga...

The Concubine's Tattoo (2000) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Dragon King's Palace (2004)

I picked this up based solely on the blurb on the cover: "Think James Clavell meets Raymond Chandler." It turned out to be accurate, but also made my expectations too high for what this book turned out to be. I absolutely adore Clavell, and Joh Rowland goes so far as to use many, many of the same...

The Dragon King's Palace (2004) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Samurai's Wife (2001)

Sano and Reiko become soul partners, committing to each other in ways which were impossible in feudal Japan. The events of this story are not completely implausible, but the action allowed in the relationship between the two spouses is purely contemporary, impossible. I read this story in Janua...

The Samurai's Wife (2001) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Way of the Traitor (2001)

It's fun to read historical fiction set in places you only know a little about, and the author does seem to have done her research. However, the mystery is I suppose competent enough, but more workmanlike than anything else, and the characters are acceptable but uninspired.The setting here is eng...

The Way of the Traitor (2001) by Laura Joh Rowland
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Shinju (2001)

HIstorická detektivka z období éry 徳川 (tokugawa). Jde o první knihu ze série příběhů, kde vystupuje Sano Ičiró, jehož policejní kariéru mapují další knihy z této série.Sano je ve svém úřadě jen několik dnů a hned je nucen se úředně vypořádat se šinjú (smíšená sebevražda). Snad aby ukázal, že nové...

Shinju (2001) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë (2008)

Laura Joh Rowland's San Ichiro novels have enthralled thousands of readers. Now the author turns her gifts for historical fiction to Victorian England and the famous and fascinating Bronte family. THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË, by Laura Joh Rowland (author of the Sano Ichiro mystery ...

The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë (2008) by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Cloud Pavilion

It was popular in springtime, when the trees were in flower and the people of Edo flocked to picnic in the pavilions, drink in the teahouses along the path, float in pleasure boats on the river, and admire the pink blossoms.But today the blossoms were long gone, the pavilions empty, the sky threa...

The Cloud Pavilion by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Iris Fan

The trembling began as she neared the palace. Her heart raced as her memory carried her back in time.     The day she’d lost the baby had begun with her and Sano and the children escaping from house arrest and a death sentence. Since then, her mind had gone over and over each ...

The Iris Fan by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Shogun's Daughter

The earthquake and fires had destroyed most of the district, but as Sano rode through it with Marume, he noticed porters lugging trunks and streets blocked by oxcarts filled with furniture. Residents were moving back into their repaired homes. Still, glaring signs of the disaster remained. Barric...

The Shogun's Daughter by Laura Joh Rowland
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Samurai's Wife

"Momo-chan!" the emperor called from his throne. "Come in here." The side door opened. A small, skinny young man, perhaps a few years older than Tomohito, entered. He approached the emperor with a jerky stride. The strange noises issued from his mouth; his head tossed like a horse's. As he knelt ...

Samurai's Wife by Laura Joh Rowland
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Bundori: A Novel of Japan

The shop’s lamplit main room was empty except for him and his host. Matsui’s clerks had long since left; their scales for weighing gold stood idle on the shelves beside the abacuses they used to count it. The desks were clear of the ledgers, writing materials, and strings of coins that would litt...

Bundori: A Novel of Japan by Laura Joh Rowland
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Assassin's Touch

Lord Matsudaira said when Sano reported the news of Colonel Ibe’s death. He leveled a triumphant glance at the shogun and Yoritomo seated on the dais above him, and the two elders kneeling nearby. “Do you believe me now?”     “Yes. You were right,” Ihara conceded. Displeasure ...

Assassin's Touch by Laura Joh Rowland
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Dragon's King Palace

Inside the shops, the umbrella makers cut bamboo handles, glued paper to spokes, and painted designs. Customers haggled with clerks and departed carrying portable shade to protect themselves from the afternoon sun that rained heat upon the city. Sano and a squadron of detectives left their horses...

Dragon's King Palace by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Incense Game

Sano could almost believe that all was well at the Tokugawa family temple, home to three thousand priests, nuns, novices, and their attendants—until he and his troops drew nearer. The two-story main gate lay in fragments by the road. Sano’s party trod carefully on shifted, crumbled stone stairs t...

The Incense Game by Laura Joh Rowland
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Black Lotus

-----FROM THE BLACK LOTUS SUTRA Distant temple bells heralded dawn. Dressed in white kimono and trousers, Reiko stood barefoot in the garden, her hand on the sword at her waist, her face upturned toward a pale sky filmed with drifting gray clouds. The estate lay dark and quiet around her. Moistur...

Black Lotus by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Fire Kimono

The fear in Hana’s eyes said she did.     “She needs your help.”     Hana expertly slit the duck’s belly. “Has she ever told you how we met?” Sano shook his head. “My parents were servants to a family in town. They died when I was ten. I became a beggar. On...

The Fire Kimono by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Snow Empress: A Thriller

This symbol of Japanese high culture looked out of place in the alien north. Sano felt more unsettled than comforted by the familiar sight, as if he’d flown to the moon only to discover trappings of home. He had thought that after what he’d already experienced here, nothing else could shock him, ...

The Snow Empress: A Thriller by Laura Joh Rowland
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Bedlam: The Further Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë (2010)

Despite the fact that I had saved the lives of her children, she bore me a grudge because she could not forget that they’d been kidnapped while in my care. Although she knew that the disastrous events of 1848 would have transpired with or without me, in her mind I was inextricably associated with...

Bedlam: The Further Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë (2010) by Laura Joh Rowland
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Concubine's Tattoo

Usually Hirata took pride in his knowledge of Nihonbashi, gained from years of police work. However, as he walked over an arched bridge and through the gate leading into the street, he found himself in unfamiliar territory. Age and affluence lay like a rich patina upon the district. Moss furred h...

Concubine's Tattoo by Laura Joh Rowland
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The Way of the Traitor: A Samurai Mystery

On the mainland, he saw red banners in the hills. Japan and his country must indeed be at war. Silently Huygens rehearsed the statements he must convince Sano to believe: I didn't kill Jan Spaen. I know nothing about any smuggling. I'm not the enemy; I'm innocent!They reached the surgery. Lamps b...

The Way of the Traitor: A Samurai Mystery by Laura Joh Rowland

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