DJTV-Books
1 - Shinju
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [1]: Seventeenth-century Tokyo is the setting for Rowland's first book in a murder mystery series featuring Sano Ichiro the Senior Police Commander in the district of Edo. Ichiro is a samurai whose academic background puts him a...
2 - Bundori
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [2]: It is early spring, 1679, and the feudal Japanese capital, Edo, is beginning to blossom. But along its peaceful, misty streets evil lurks. With one stroke, the favored vassal of the ruling family is decapitated, his head ta...
3 - The Way of the Traitor
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [3]: A volatile, corrupt city threatened by toreign invasion and ru by an iron-fisted government, Nagasaki is the last place Sano Ichiro wants to be, Unfortunately, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations,...
4 - The Concubine's Tattoo
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [4]: Twenty months spent as the shogun's sosakan-sama--most honorable investigator of events, situations, and people--has left Sano Ichiro weary. He looks forward to the comforts that his arranged marriage promises: a private li...
5 - The Samurai's Wife
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [5]: EDITORIAL REVIEW:
IN THE IMPERIAL CITY OF KYOTO, POWER IS MERELY CEREMONIAL. BUT AN ANCIENT EVIL STILL SURVIVES...Far from the shogun's court at Edo, Most Honorable Investigator Sano Ichiro begins the most challenging case...
6 - Black Lotus
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [6]: EDITORIAL REVIEW:
When veteran samurai-detective Sano Ichiro, the Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called on to investigate the burning of a cottage belonging to the Black Lotus Temple, he ...
7 - The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [7]: In feudal Japan, passion and secrets lead to murder. . .From A Remote, Exotic World. . . Sano Ichiro, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, awakens from a turbulent dream into a real-life nightmare....
8 - The Dragon King's Palace
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [8]: On a whim of the shogun's mother, a procession has left the sweltering heat of Edo, bound for the cooler climate of Mount Fuji. Among her traveling companions are Reiko, the beautiful wife of Sano Ichiro, the shogun's Most ...
9 - The Perfumed Sleeve
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [9]: November 1694. The streets of Edo are erupting in violence as two factions struggle for control over the ruling Tokugawa regime. One is led by the shogun's cousin, Lord Matsudaira, and the other by the shogun's second-in-co...
10 - The Assassin's Touch
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [10]: 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...
11 - Red Chrysanthemum
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [11]: EDITORIAL REVIEW:
Tokyo, 1698:** **Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to become the shogun's second-in-command, is investigating rumors of a plot to overthrow the ruling regime. But conspiracy theories trave...
12 - The Snow Empress: A Thriller
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [12]: Japan, 1699: On a moonlit night on the northern frontier island of Ezogashima, a woman is running through the forest when an arrow strikes her dead. Meanwhile, in the city of Edo, the young son of Sano Ichiro, the samurai ...
13 - The Fire Kimono
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [13]: Japan, March 1700. Near a Shinto shrine in the hills, a windstorm knocks down a tree to uncover a human skeleton, long buried and forgotten. Meanwhile, in the nearby city of Edo, troops ambush and attack Lady Reiko, the wi...
14 - The Cloud Pavilion
Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichiro Mysteries [14]: Japan, 1701. A woman is brutally attacked within a bamboo prison as clouds swirl around her head. Meanwhile, at Edo Castle, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro is suspicious of his old rival, Yanagisawa, who h...
