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Ingrid J. Parker is a detective/mystery writer, best known for creating Sugawara Akitada, who solved crimes in Heian era of ancient Japan. She was born and raised in Germany[1].

She was the winner of Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story in 2000, with Akitada's First Case, published in 1999.

She was, until retirement, Associate Professor of English and Foreign Languages at Norfolk State University. Writing detective mysteries set in ancient Japan was an incidental result of initial research into 11th century Japan out of professional interest in Japanese literature of the era.

Her first short story about Sugawara Akitada ("Instruments of Murder") was published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in October 1997.

She has written several Sugawara Akitada novels, but the series' first publisher (St. Martin's Press) decided to change the order of publication of the novels instead of following internal chronology. She switched to Penguin in 2004 with the agreement to publish the novels in internal chronological order, which is: (1) The Dragon Scroll, (2) Rashomon Gate, (3) Black Arrow, (4) Island of Exiles, (5) The Hell Screen, (6) The Convict's Sword.

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Total Books: 40
The Kindness of Dragons
2018 - The Kindness of Dragons [Akitada, Bk 18] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781724666789
ISBN-10: 1724666789
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
 2

The Masuda Affair
2010 - The Masuda Affair [Sugawara Akitada, Bk 7] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780727869258
ISBN-10: 0727869256
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 4

The Convict's Sword
2009 - The Convict's Sword [Sugawara Akitada, Bk 6] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780143115793
ISBN-10: 0143115790
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 6

Island of Exiles  A Mystery of Early Japan
2007 - Island of Exiles a Mystery of Early Japan [Sugawara Akitada, Bk 4] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780143112594
ISBN-10: 0143112597
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 11

Black Arrow
2006 - Black Arrow [Sugawara Akitada, Bk 3] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780143035619
ISBN-10: 0143035614
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 15

The Hell Screen
2003 - The Hell Screen [Sugawara Akitada, Bk 5] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780312287955
ISBN-10: 031228795X
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 9