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Photographer Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and sometime street urchin Mick O'Reilly are private detectives with a new gig--photographing crime scenes for London's Daily World newspaper. The Daily World is the latest business venture of their sole client, Sir Geral...

PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE HANGMAN'S SECRET, ISBN 9781683319023. Author Laura Joh Rowland is back with the fourth novel in her critically acclaimed 'Victorian Mystery' series where the case of a mutilated "Sleeping Beauty" washes ashore in London.

In 1890 London, while rescuing victims of a train crash, crime scene photographer Sarah Bain Barrett and her detective husband discover a woman who has been strangled to death.

Victorian London is a city gripped by belief in the supernatural, but a grisly murder becomes a matter of flesh and blood for intrepid photographer Sarah Bain. In order to solve the murder, Bain must confront her own ghosts and face her most elusive and deadly adversary yet.

While investigating the murder of a woman whose torso has been found, crime photographer and investigator Sarah Bain Barrett is pitted against a bitter enemy who is hell-bent on discovering what she and her close-knit band of comrades know about the killer, threatening both her m...

Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Brontë sets off for London to clear her name. But when she unintentionally witnesses a murder, Charlotte finds herself embroiled in a dangerous chain of events that forces her to ...

In the ordered world of 17th-century Japan, brothels are confined to "pleasure quarters." When the shogun's heir apparent is found murdered in a courtesan's bed, samurai-detective Sano Ichiro and his wife, Reiko, investigate. Fifth in a series.

When a skeleton believed to be that of the shogun's cousin who disappeared forty years earlier is discovered Ichiro Sano and his wife Reiko must work to clear the name of Sano's mother who has been implicated in the murder.

Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer in Whitechapel, is an independent woman with dark secrets. In the privacy of her studio, she supplements her meager income by taking illicit "boudoir photographs" of the town's local ladies of the night. But when two of her models are found gruesom...

A photographer in 1889 London, Miss Sarah Bain runs a private detective agency with her friends, Lord Hugh Staunton and former street urchin Mick O'Reilly. Their sole credential is that they solved the Jack the Ripper case, a secret they can never tell because they did it outside...

"The year is 1690, and the place is Nagasaki - a city where superstition, politics, and greed reign supreme. It is here that the mutilated body of Jan Spaen, a prominent Dutch trader and one of the few Westerners in Japan, washes ashore. With few leads and too many enemies, Sano ...

Japan, 1699. The son of samurai detective Sano Ichiro and his wife Reiko has been kidnapped. The search leads Sano to the court of the deranged Lord Matsumae, driven mad by the murder of his mistress.

In 17th century Japan, a former criminal investigator Sano Ichirō is assigned a case involving the mysterious deaths of high-ranking officials. Meanwhile his wife, Reiko, attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her parents and sister, and Reiko is asked by the magistrate...

Japan, 1698. Samurai sleuth Sano Ichiro knows that his position as the shogun's advisor exposes him to jealousy, but even he could not foresee that someone would murder the shogun's heir and try to frame Sano's wife Reiko for the crime.

"Japan, 1709. The shogun is old and ailing. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichirō 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 a...