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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 9

  The Perfumed Sleeve (Sano Ichiro Mysteries)

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  Sano Ichiro, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People is faced with his most challenging case when he investigates the death of Senior Elder Makino, the shogun's most trusted adviser. There is only one puzzling clue-a torn, perfumed sleeve of a kimono. Under the watchful eyes of the shogun's cousin, Lord Matsudaira, and the shogun's second-in-command, Chamberlain Yanagisaw, Sano moves with... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 5

  The Samurai's Wife (A Sano Ichiro Mystery)

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  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 of his career. Upon the insistence of his strong-willed and beautiful wife Reiko, Sano arrives with her at the emperor's palace to unmask the murderer-who possesses the secret of kiai-"the spirit cry"-a powerful... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 8

  The Dragon King's Palace (A Sano Ichiro Mystery)

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  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 Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People; Reiko's friend Midori, nine months pregnant; and Lady Yanagisawa, the deranged wife of the shogun's powerful second-in-command. None of... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 7

  The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria (A Sano Ichiro Mystery)

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  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. Lord Matsudaira Mitsuyoshi, the shogun's cousin and heir, has been murdered after a night of debauchery in the city's pleasure quarter... Comes A Danger All Too Close To Home. . . The... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 2

  Bundori

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  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 taken for a bundori -- a war trophy. Sano Ichiro, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called to find the culprit. In a city where danger and deceit... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 4

  The Concubine's Tattoo (A Sano Ichiro Mystery)

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  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 life with a sweet, submissive wife and a month's holiday to celebrate their union. However, the death of the shogun's favorite concubine interrupts the couple's wedding ceremony and shatters any... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 6

  Black Lotus (A Sano Ichiro Mystery)

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  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 makes a shocking discovery. The three victims of the blaze did not die in the fire, but were brutally murdered before the fire even began. With a triple homicide on his hands, Sano's search for a killer leads him... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 1

  Shinju

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love. Everyone but newly appointed yoriki Sano Ichiro. Despite the official verdict and warnings from his superiors, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People suspects the deaths weren't just a tragedy -- they... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 11

  Red Chrysanthemum: A Thriller (Sano Ichiro Mysteries)

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  July 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. When the investigation brings Sano’s deputy Hirata to Lord Mori’s estate, he is shocked to find Lord Mori murdered and grotesquely mutilated in his own bed, and Sano’s pregnant wife, Reiko, lying beside him. The only solid clue is a chrysanthemum... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 10

  The Assassin's Touch (A Sano Ichiro Mystery)

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  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 into his skin.   Sano’s wife Reiko has an investigation of her own: a beautiful, proud, and hopelessly poor woman has... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 3

  Way of the Traitor:, The: A Samurai Mystery

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  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, and People has been banished there by a wicked adversary in the shogun's court. Surrounded by spies, Sano must tread carefully. When the body of a Dutch trader washes ashore, he finds himself... (more)
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  Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 12

  The Snow Empress: A Thriller

  by Laura Joh Rowland

  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 to power and influence in the shogun’s court, vanishes during a moon-watching party.             When Sano’s... (more)