Sujata Massey
Bride's Kimono, The
By: Sujata Massey
Antiques dealer Rei Shimura has managed to snag one of the most lucrative and prestigious jobs of her career: a renowned museum in Washington, D.C., has invited her to exhibit rar kimonos and give a lecture on them. Accompanied by agaggle of...
Published: Oct 2002
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Pages: 400
The Typhoon Lover
By: Sujata Massey
In her eighth mystery, Japanese-American antiquities expert Rei Shimura celebrates turning 30 with a new profession: spy. Having circumvented the ban that keeps Rei from traveling to Japan, the CIA enlists her to investigate her ex-boyfriend Takeo,...
Published: Sep 2006
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Pages: 320
The Pearl Diver
By: Sujata Massey
A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start in a new country bring antiques dealer and sometime-sleuth Rei Shimura to Washington, D.C. But while she tries to play catch-up with her beautiful, politically connected cousin, Kendall,...
Published: Aug 2005
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Pages: 335
The Samurai's Daughter
By: Sujata Massey
In her sixth outing, antiques dealer/amateur detective Rei Shimura heads to her childhood home of San Francisco to spend Christmas with the family. She soon gets tangled up in a murder investigation (with her beau, lawyer Hugh Glendinning), as well...
Published: Jul 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Pages: 304
The Salaryman's Wife
By: Sujata Massey
During a sightseeing trip, Rei Shimura, a young Japanese-American English teacher living in Tokyo, stumbles upon the body of the wife of a powerful businessman and turns sleuth to solve the crime, crashing a funeral, masquerading as a bar girl, and...
Published: Apr 2000
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Pages: 432
The Flower Master
By: Sujata Massey
Life in Japan for a transplanted California with a fledging antiques business and a nonexistent love life isn't always fun, but when the flower arranging class Rei Shimura's aunt cajoles her into taking turns into a stage for murder, Rei finds plenty...
Published: Apr 2000
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 390
Girl in a Box (Rei Shimura Mysteries)
By: Sujata Massey
Chronically underemployed Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura has taken a freelance gig with a Washington, D.C., alphabet agency that just might have ties to the CIA. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is to go undercover as a clerk in...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Pages: 304
Shimura Trouble (Rei Shimura Mysteries)
By: Sujata Massey
A Rei Shimura Mystery - During a family reunion on the island of Oahu, Japanese-American undercover spy Rei Shimura is roped into helping the Hawaiian branch of her family regain land stolen from them during World War II. But when fire sweeps the...
Published: Nov 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Pages: 256
The Floating Girl
By: Sujata Massey
A sly, humorous look at Japan's burgeoning anime (comics) phenomenon, with friendly swipes at its xenophobic reactions to outsiders. If the plot is not quite as attractively laid out as those platters of sushi, a few hours of the company of Rei-san...
Published: Jul 2001
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Pages: 384
Zen Attitude
By: Sujata Massey
Life in modern Tokyo is a blast for Rei Shimura, a young Japanese-American woman who enjoys busy days as an antiques dealer and steamy nights with a devoted new boyfriend. But things come to a standstill when Rei overpays for a rare old chest of...
Published: Jun 1998
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Pages: 312