Laura Joh Rowland

Laura Joh Rowland (born 1954 in Michigan) is an American crime writer with Chinese and Korean ancestors.

Life

Before Rowland author was she studied microbiology at the University of Michigan and worked as a graphic designer and lecturer in creative writing. Your novels are set in the 17th century in the Tokugawa era of feudal Japan. The protagonist of their previously fourteen novels is the samurai and the shogun special investigator Sano Ichiro.

Rowland lives with her husband in New Orleans. It describes the science- fiction writer George Alec Effinger as their mentor.

Novels in chronological order

  • Shinju. A Sano Ichirō murder mystery. Robinson, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-8452-9904-0 (EA London 1994). German translation: The Cherry Blossom murder. Sano Ichiro's first case. Bastion Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1996, ISBN 3-404-25827-4
  • German translation: Revenge of the samurai. Sano Ichiro's second case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1999, ISBN 3-7857-0978-1.
  • German translation: The trace of the traitor. Sano Ichiro's third case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, ISBN 3-404-92090-2.
  • German translation: Mystery of the concubine. Sano Ichiro's fourth case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 3-404-92107-0.
  • German translation: The Way of the Warrior. Sano Ichiro's fifth case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2003, ISBN 3-404-92128-3.
  • German translation: The mystery of the black lotus flower. Sano Ichiro's sixth case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2003, ISBN 3-404-92146-1.
  • German translation: The Betrayal of the courtesan. Sano Ichiro's seventh case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 3-404-92177-1.
  • German translation: The Palace of the Dragon King. Sano Ichiro's eighth case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2005, ISBN 3-404-92189-5.
  • German translation: The letter of the enemy. Sano Ichiro's ninth case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-404-92220-4.
  • German translation: The Finger of Death. Sano Ichiro's tenth case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 3-404-92245- X.
  • German translation: The red chrysanthemum. Sano Ichiro's eleventh case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 3-404-92281-6.
  • German translation: The spirits of the moon. Sano Ichiro's twelfth case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 3-404-92317-0.
  • German translation: The Fire Kimono. Sano Ichiro's thirteenth case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2010, ISBN 3-404-16457-1.
  • German translation: The Cloud Pavilion. Sano Ichiro fourteenth case. Gustav Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2011, ISBN 3-404-16078-9.
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