This fiction novel leads the reader back to Japan at the beginning of the Meiji Era (1868-1911). It showcases adventure, love, crime, and murder. A rogue samurai by the name of Yamanouchi-Oka-son, whose only weapons are a tessen (iron fan) and a sokubaku (small chain), is hired by the Japanese Special Operation Affairs. Oka-San, being a ronin, takes on the job of rescuing a beautiful female Special Operations spy from the yakuza (Japanese gangsters). During...

Letters, diary entries, poems, monologues and dialogues created to illustrate the stories of people whose lives were touched by Ellis Island, once the United States' largest immigration station.

Join Inspector Lynley in these action packed adventures. Starting in a Scotland Yard, Lynley finds himself paired with Detective Sergeant Barbara. However, the tension of their personal lives begin to seep into their work.

British crime investigation series based around aristocratic, Oxford-educated Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his working-class assistant Sergeant Barbara Havers.