Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Laura Joh Rowland

Born: 1954 (age 72)
Bio: Laura Joh Rowland is a detective/mystery author best known for her series of historical mystery novels set in the late days of feudal Japan, mostly in Edo during the late 17th century. Her protagonist is Sano Ichirō.
Known for:
- Shinjū (1994)
- Bundori (1996)
- The concubine's tattoo (1998)
- The Snow Empress (2007)
- The Fire Kimono (2008)






