"August 1565: When a rival artisan turns up dead outside Ginjiro's brewery, and all the evidence implicates the brewer, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo must find the killer before the magistrate executes Ginjiro and seizes the brewery, leaving his wife and daughter destitute. A missing merchant, a vicious debt collector, and a female moneylender join Ginjiro and the victim's spendthrift son on the suspect list. But with...

In sixteenth-century Japan, master ninja Hiro and the Jesuit priest he is sworn to protect race against time to prevent a wrongful execution by solving the murder of a samurai whose death is linked to numerous possible suspects.

"After fleeing Kyoto, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo take refuge with Hiro's ninja clan in the mountains of Iga Province. When an ambassador from the rival Koga clan is murdered during peace negotiations, Hiro and Father Mateo must find the killer in time to prevent a war between the ninja clans."--Back cover.

Yumeko, a yokai who has part of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, teams up with Kage Tatsumi, a samurai of the Shadow Clan, promising to take the samurai to the Scroll if he protects her from the army of demons also looking for the Scroll.

"Autumn, 1565: When an actor's daughter is murdered on the banks of Kyoto's Kamo River, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo are the victim's only hope for justice. As political tensions rise in the wake of the shogun's recent death, and rival warlords threaten war, the Kyoto police forbid an investigation of the killing, to keep the peace--but Hiro has a personal connection to the girl, and must avenge her. The secret investigation...

Sano Ichiro, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People in seventeenth-century Japan,rushes to find out who killed the shogun's cousin and heir, Lord Mitsuyoshi, who was found dead in the bed of the famous courtesan, Lady Wisteria.

Sano Ichiro, a samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court in eighteenth-century Japan, must put aside his investigation of an attack on his wife, Reiko, when his position at court is jeopardized by the discovery of a human skeleton near a Shinto shrine that implicates Sano's mother in a scandal that occurred forty years earlier.

"It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan, to open the legendary Dragon Box. The box was constructed during one of Japan's most tumultuous periods, when the samurai class was disbanded and the shogun lost power. In this moment of crisis, Emperor Meiji locked a priceless Imperial secret in the Dragon Box. Only two people knew how to open the box--Meiji and the box's sadistic constructor--and both...