Joseph Mark Brewer
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Joseph Mark Brewer was born in Hamilton, Ohio, to a large family and at an early age took an interest in reading and observing the world around him. Thanks to cross-country vacations and summers working at a camp in New York State he took a keen interest in traveling and writing stories. After winning a music scholarship he attended university for several years before enlisting in the Navy as a journalist. He served on ships in Charleston, South Carolina and in Yokosuka, Japan, and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas and has worked in newspaper and publishing in places that include New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Tokyo. He continues to write and edit most anything nonfiction or fiction. His many years in Japan provide the inspiration for his Shig Sato Mystery series.
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The Gangster's Son
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Mystery
Facing retirement and weary from caring for his terminally ill wife, Tokyo police Inspector Shig Sato returns to Azabu Police Station and teams up with his old partner, Detective Ken Abe, for his last month with the department. On his first night back, a young waitress at a jazz club is murdered. Her boyfriend, an American Marine, is missing, and the club owner is nowhere to be found. Sato knows that if the American has anything to do with the murder, it could ignite a political and diplomatic firestorm. Sato believes that finding the American is his first duty. Then Sato learns that the club owner is the son of prominent crime boss Ses Fujimori. Ties between the Fujimoris and Satos go back a generation. It’s something the inspector cannot escape, especially since he asked Fujimori for help in solving a case early in his career. Fujimori agreed, knowing that Sato would be in his debt. With his son now a murder suspect, what will Fujimori demand in return for his cooperation? What price will Sato pay to bring a young woman’s killer to justice? 
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