The Reluctant Samurai: Laura Joh Rowland’s Sano Ichiro Novels

Laura Joh Rowland is the author of fifteen novels in the historical mystery series featuring Sano Ichiro, the seventeenth-century Senior Police Commander and later chamberlain to the Shogun in the district of Edo, present-day Tokyo.  Ichiro is a samurai with an intellectual background that often puts him at odds with his colleagues. The series began with the 1994 title, Shinju, and the fifteenth installment, The Ronin’s Mistress, appears this fall.

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