Jonelle Patrick Books in Order

When her friend Rika is found dead in an apparent suicide pact, English translator Yumi Hata doubts the official explanation. Working with investigator Kenji Nakamura, she searches Tokyo for the truth behind a death that appears increasingly suspicious.

Yumi Hata follows her friend Coco into Tokyo’s exclusive host clubs while Kenji Nakamura investigates a hostess’s death. Their inquiries draw them into a world where wealthy clients, carefully constructed identities, and dangerous secrets complicate the search for a killer.

An earthquake interrupts Yumi Hata’s wedding, but the missing priest has already been murdered. Detective Kenji Nakamura investigates clues pointing toward a pop idol believed lost in the tsunami, uncovering secrets within Japan’s entertainment industry.

Detective Kenji Nakamura learns his mother’s death ten years earlier may not have been accidental. A murdered young woman provides a disturbing connection, and Kenji joins Yumi Hata in an investigation that threatens what remains of his family.

Yumi reluctantly accompanies Coco to an amateur band competition, then grows concerned about her friend’s involvement with the musicians. Suspecting their awkward manager is concealing something, she asks Detective Kenji Nakamura to help uncover whether Coco is being targeted.

An American appraiser struggling in Tokyo and a Japanese woman trying to preserve her family’s pottery business become connected through an old tea bowl. Its history links their choices to centuries of theft, ambition, and competing ideas of value.

In eighteenth-century Japan, a samurai witnesses a murder in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter. Birdie, a courtesan’s apprentice with her own hopes of freedom, becomes involved in uncovering a crime whose consequences threaten both their futures.