The Snow Empress
A Thriller
Sano Ichiro: Book #12
- By: Laura Joh Rowland
- Narrated by: James Yaegashi
- Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Description
Chosen by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 2007, The Snow Empress showcases author Laura Joh Rowland's deep understanding of 17th-century Japan and her impeccable gift of storytelling. This thrilling novel finds samurai detective Sano IchirO working to gain freedom for his son by investigating the murder of a lord's beloved mistress.
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Sano Ichiro Series
The Snow Empress
By: Laura Joh Rowland
Narrated by: James Yaegashi
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Chosen by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 2007, The Snow Empress showcases author Laura Joh Rowland's deep understanding of 17th-century Japan and her impeccable gift of storytelling. This thrilling novel finds samurai detective Sano IchirO working to gain freedom for his son by investigating the murder of a lord's beloved mistress. Read more »
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The Fire Kimono
By: Laura Joh Rowland
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Japan, March 1700. The strifebetween Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in theshogun’s court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war. Called awayfrom the crisis by the shogun’s orders to investigate a mysterious skeleton,Sano and his wife, Reiko, must confront dangerous, long-buried secrets. Whatwas Sano’s own... Read more »
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The Cloud Pavilion
By: Laura Joh Rowland
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
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 has been oddly cooperative since returning from exile. But just as Yanagisawa’s true motives begin to emerge, Sano’s estranged... Read more »
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The Ronin’s Mistress
By: Laura Joh Rowland
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, forty-seven warriors murder a man who stood at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revenge—but why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they should not immediately be ordered to commit ritual suicide? Sano Ichiro,... Read more »
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The Iris Fan
By: Laura Joh Rowland
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Japan, 1709. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichiro has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre new alliance between his two enemies Yanagisawa and Lord Ienobu has left him puzzled and wary. Then a harrowing, almost inconceivable crime takes... Read more »
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The Incense Game
By: Laura Joh Rowland
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichiro races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime. When a massive earthquake devestates Japan in 1703, even the shogun's carefully regulated court is left teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation - except when a nobleman's daughters are found... Read more »
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The Shogun's Daughter
By: Laura Joh Rowland
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length:
Abridged: No
Japan, 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed. The death of the Shogun's daughter has immediate consequences on his regime. Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles, he names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered was his. Until five months ago, Yoshisato... Read more »
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