Search - List of Books by Laura Joh Rowland

List of novels

1. Shinju (ISBN 978-0-06-100950-1, 1994, Random House)
2. Bundori (ISBN 0-7472-1717-3, 1996, HarperTorch)
3. The Way of the Traitor (ISBN 0-06-101090-1,1997, Headline Feature)
4. The Concubine's Tattoo (ISBN 0-312-19252-5, December 1998, St. Martin's Press)
5. The Samurai's Wife (ISBN 0-312-20325-X, May 2000, St. Martin's Press)
6. Black Lotus (ISBN 0-312-26872-6, Aril 2001, St. Martin's Press)
7. The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria (ISBN0-312-28262-1, April 2002, St. Martin's Press)
8. The Dragon King's Palace (ISBN 0-312-28266-4, April 2003, St. Martin's Press)
9. The Perfumed Sleeve (ISBN 0-312-31889-8, April 2004, St. Martin's Minotaur)
10. The Assassin's Touch (ISBN 0-312-31900-2, August 2005, St. Martin's Press)
11. The Red Chrysanthemum (ISBN 0-312-35532-7, November 2006, St. Martin's Press)
12. The Snow Empress (ISBN 0-312-36542-X, October 30, 2007, St. Martin's Minotaur)
13. The Fire Kimono (ISBN 0-312-37948-X, November 11, 2008, St. Martin's Minotaur)
14. The Cloud Pavilion (ISBN 0-312-37949-8, October 27, 2009, Minotaur Books)

Annotations

• It is not known if it is coincidental or intentional on the part of the author that the protagonist's name Sano Ichiro could be interpreted as a homage to one of Japan's most famous deductive fiction writers, , born in 1928, who uses the pen-name of Sano Yo (???.)
• The title of the first novel is the Romanised form of the term written in kanji as ??, pronounced as Shinj?, which refers to a suicide pact by a pair of lovers.
• The title of the second novel is the Romanised form of the term written in katakana as ???? (bu-n-do-ri), which means "Seizing the soil of the vanquished.", or simply spoils of war or war trophy ( BUNDORI).

1. The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë (scheduled for April 2008, Overlook Press)