Laura Joh Rowland - autor

Nagasaki, 1690. An exotic, volatile city where a corrupt government fears foreign invasion like the plague and rules with an iron fist. Spies lurk in every corner watching for those they can accuse of following the Way of the Traitor - a...

At the start of Rowlands assured 10th historical set in 17th-century Japan (after 2004s The Perfumed Sleeve), Sano Ichiro, now the shoguns chamberlain and second-in-command, returns to his previous role of criminal investigator after the countrys...

Rowlands 11th 17th-century Japanese historical (after 2005s The Assassins Touch) is even more of a page-turner than its predecessors. Sano Ichiro has risen through the ranks from his position as the shoguns special investigator to the powerful...