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Overview: I am a native of Washington state and live in the Seattle area. I have always been an avid student of all areas of history and received a BA in History from the University of Washington, concentrating on Far Eastern History. Along the way I discovered that writing historical fiction was a way of sharing my own love of history with others. The story-telling allows one to be immersed in the past in ways that ordinary non-fiction history cannot. My Harbin Mystery series takes place in and around the cosmopolitan Chinese city of Harbin beginning in 1929.
Because the historical aspect of my story-telling is important to me, I strive to be as accurate to the real past as possible. That includes research of available academic books and articles on Manchuria and Harbin, and even acquiring travel guides, magazines, and maps from the time period.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Drawing the Tiger’s Bones (#1)
A mixed-race patrolman at the bottom ranks of Harbin’s Special District police force. A dismembered body. A raging Red Terror campaign. A brewing war with the Soviet Union…
1929: Borya is at the bottom ranks of Harbin’s Special District police force. His meager salary is the only thing that keeps his widowed mother and sisters fed. When fate takes him from chasing pickpockets to pairing him with one of the force’s premier detectives, his life changes forever. They are assigned to investigate the dismembered body of one the city’s foreign businessmen uncovered in the nearby Japanese zone.
The trail takes them from the upscale boulevards of Harbin’s New Town, to the seediest neighborhoods of the lower city, and beyond to the frontiers of Manchuria. Slowly they are drawn into a potential war with the Soviet Union that could tear apart the whole balance of life as they know it…
Can Borya and Inspector Chinn stay alive long enough to solve the crime?
The Tigers of East Mountain (#2)
The discovery of the defiled body of a local Jewish businessman in a Harbin back alley threatens to tip the city into mob violence…
It’s 1932 and Borya Melnikov returns to police ranks after the Japanese take over Harbin and end Soviet control, only this time with the Judicial Police of the new state of Manchukuo. Now he has the opportunity to pay back the Soviets for the death of his Russian father by thwarting their subversive efforts.
Then the killing of a local Jewish businessman threatens to plunge the city into political turmoil. Borya is assigned to the case along with a police intern from Okinawa, whom Borya isn’t sure is an ally or a spy for his Japanese handlers. They find their list of suspects run the gamut from Russian Fascists to Soviet agents to the Anti-Japanese resistance.
The closer Borya gets to the truth, the closer he comes to being the killer’s next victim. Leaks and deadly attacks convince him he can trust no one except maybe his Japanese partner. Together they are in a race with the killer that takes them to the northern frontiers of Manchuria.
Visiting the Tiger’s Den (#3)
An anonymous letter warns Senior Police Inspector Melnikov to “DROP YOUR INVESTIGATION OR FACE DEATH”. But the dilemma—which one of his ongoing investigations did they mean?
It’s 1935, and Borya Melnikov has risen to the rank of Senior Inspector on Harbin’s Judicial Police unit in Manchuria. But his position is becoming untenable as Manchukuo’s Japanese masters are increasingly intolerant of his independent style . . . and now this anonymous threat lands on his desk. It’s not in his nature to back down to threats, but it is only weeks before his wife returns to Harbin. He must quickly solve all four of his open investigations before she arrives or risk putting her into danger also.
His investigations run the gamut of the crimes endemic to his beloved city: accusations of illegal currency trading, opium smuggling, corruption within the metropolitan police, and even ties to a fanatic peasant army who believe they are invulnerable to bullets! He will need a team . . . and all the skills and fortitude they can muster to eliminate the threat in time.
But nothing is simple—the more Borya and his team delve into the cases, the more new enemies he makes. Now the threats come from all directions—a Yakuza crime family, the shadowy Japanese Kempeitai military police, and even from the ranks of his fellow policemen. And meanwhile the clock is ticking . . .
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