The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë by Laura Joh Rowland

Your excellent reviews for the series stress your grasp and portrayal of detail. That’s a little different from contemporary American crime fiction, in which guns and fists are the usual weapons. Thrilling battle scenes are a staple of my series, and he’s been known to lop off a villain’s head once in a while. Readers might expect a detective hero, but what do his samurai talents add to his character and this story? And this time, they may not survive the day. While seeking the killer, he and his family become the accused. When Sano learns that Tsuruhime’s death may have been murder, he sets off on a dangerous investigation that leads to more death and destruction as he struggles to keep his pregnant wife Reiko and his children safe. Sano doubts that Yoshisato is really the shogun’s son, believing it’s a fraud and power-play devised by Yanagisawa. Yanagisawa is also the longtime enemy of Sano Ichiro (the samurai detective hero in my series). Yoshisato was raised as the illegitimate son of Yanagisawa, the shogun’s favorite advisor. Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles caused by the recent earthquake, the shogun names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered is his. Her death has immediate, serious consequences. The shogun’s daughter Tsuruhime dies of smallpox. Please give us a short summary of your latest release, THE SHOGUN’S DAUGHTER.

Advice from such a successful writer is like gold. It takes talent to continue a mystery series for 17 novels, and the novels have grown in popularity with each one. Karen Harper was recently able to catch up with busy Laura Joh Rowland whose career she has long admired.

The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë by Laura Joh Rowland