When her son is kidnapped in Mexico, a mother seeks vengeance.
Film director Carole Marchand’s son has just been kidnapped for the third time. The first two times weren’t as troubling, since Carole had abducted Robert herself—incidents in her...
He is a broken man. A man on the edge... An ex-New York cop, now working as a freelance investigator in London; Thomas Blume searches for the killers that tore his family apart. "For justice, for closure, for revenge."But when Blume stumbles across...
You’re an ordinary man living an ordinary life until your wife and young family are killed.The police believe it to be a tragic accident – an unsolved hit and run, but you discover that this is far from the truth. You instigate a meticulous...
Eleventh-century Japan: After a difficult but successful assignment as provisional governor of Eichigo, Akitada Sugawara is finally allowed to return to Heian Kyo. But instead of a triumphant homecoming accompanied by his beautiful wife and young...
After the loss of his wife and newborn son, Akitada returns home, ostensibly to care for his motherless children, but really to withdraw from the world into his grief. When his friends and family join in an effort to draw him out of his seclusion by...
She was intended to be the emperor’s concubine, but she died at the bottom of a cliff near Prince Atsuhira’s private villa. The palace covered up the scandal. Months later, Akitada is drawn into the case when his best friend is accused of...
A.D. 1030. Senior Secretary Sugawara Akitada is recovering from a knife wound and still reeling from the loss of his wife. When the Council of State orders an investigation of the claims of two warring temples, he is sent to Otsu to clear up the...
A guide and companion for the Akitada Series from author Ingrid J. Parker including background, synopsis, character descriptions and pronunciation tips to help you follow murder and malfeasance set amid the exquisite ritual and refined treachery of...
Product DescriptionIn the tempestuous closing years of the twelfth century, the fourteen-year-old Oba Toshiko, daughter of a provincial warlord, enters the women’s quarters of Emperor Go-Shirakawa, her body bartered for favor at court....