Sujata Massey Books In Order

Perveen Mistry Books In Publication Order

  1. The Widows of Malabar Hill (2018)
  2. The Satapur Moonstone (2019)
  3. The Bombay Prince (2021)

Rei Shimura Books In Publication Order

  1. The Salaryman’s Wife (1997)
  2. Zen Attitude (1998)
  3. The Flower Master (1999)
  4. The Floating Girl (2000)
  5. The Bride’s Kimono (2001)
  6. The Samurai’s Daughter (2003)
  7. The Pearl Diver (2004)
  8. The Typhoon Lover (2005)
  9. Girl in a Box (2006)
  10. Shimura Trouble (2008)
  11. The Kizuna Coast (2014)

Rei Shimura Short Stories Books In Publication Order

  1. The Deepest Blue (2011)
  2. Junior High Samurai (2011)
  3. The Convenience Boy (2011)

Rei Shimura Collections In Publication Order

  1. Convenience Boy and Other Stories of Japan (2011)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Sleeping Dictionary (2013)
  2. The City of Palaces (2013)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Ayah’s Tale (2013)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey (2014)

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Sujata Massey Books Overview

The Salaryman’s Wife

Japanese American Rei Shimura is a 27 year old English teacher living in one of Tokyo’s seediest neighborhoods. She doesn’t make much money, but she wouldn’t go back home to California even if she had a free ticket which, thanks to her parents, she does. Her independence is threatened however, when a getaway to an ancient castle town is marred by murder. Rei is the first to find the beautiful wife of a high powered businessman, dead in the snow. Taking charge, as usual, Rei searches for clues by crashing a funeral, posing as a bar girl, and somehow ending up pursued by police and paparazzi alike. In the meantime, she manages to piece together a strange, ever changing puzzle one that is built on lies and held together by years of sex and deception.

Zen Attitude

It’s Tough to Keep Cool When the Heat Is On Japanese American Rei Shimura finally has a life to be proud of in Tokyo: running her own antiques business and living with her Scottish lawyer boyfreind. But when Rei overpays for a beautiful chest of drawers, she’s in for the worst deal of her life. The con man who sold her the Tansu is found dead, and like it or not Rei’s opened a pandora’s box of mystery, theft, and murder. Only Rei sees the Tansu as the key. It will take a quick wit, fast feet, and above all a Zen Attitude for Rei to discover what a young monk, a judo star, and an ancient scroll have in common, and why her own life hangs in the balance. Sujata Massey is an exciting new author published by HarperPaperbacks. Massey’s first novel, The Salaryman’s Wife, has just been nominated for the prestigious Anthony Award. Massey’s second novel, Zen Attitude, also featuring Rei Shimura, a 27 year old Japanese American English teaching living in Tokyo, will be out in June 1998.

The Flower Master

Agatha Award winning author Sujata Massey makes her hardcover debut with The Flower Master, the third entry in her wonderfully successful mystery series featuring a savvy young Japanese American woman in modern day Tokyo. Rei Shimura, a twentysomething part California girl, part Japanese antiques dealer, can’t quite find her place in Tokyo society. Lately Rei’s love life has fallen off the radar screen, and despite all her efforts, her new business isn’t doing much better. At her aunt’s insistence, Rei enrolls in a course in ikebana, the famous Japanese art of flower arranging. Little does she realize what a cutthroat class it will be; she’s hardly completed a lesson before her instructor is murdered. Rei is ready to track down the killer, but suddenly the case hits close to home. She and her aunt are battered by waves of police questioning, press attention, and mysterious warnings. Skeletons are rattling in her family’s closet, and Rei must open the door to a dangerous secret. Rei’s in for the excitement she’s been missing as her search for the truth takes her through twisting new corridors of intrigue, romance, and murder. It’s up to Rei, the black sheep, to keep her family name clear and her own life safe from an enemy with an unknown agenda. The Flower Master is a scintillating mystery as fresh, cutting edge, and uniquely appealing as its in over her head but hanging on sleuth.

The Floating Girl

Half American, half Japanese, Rei Shimura is finally beginning to feel like Tokyo is home. Now a writer on art and antiques at the Gaijin Times, a comic style magazine aimed at affluent young readers, Rei’s latest assignment is a piece on the history of comic book art. During a weekend of research and relaxation at her boyfriend Takeo’s beachside house, Rei stumbles upon the perfect subject: an exquisite modern comic that reveals the disturbing social milieu of pre World War II Japan. Rei art story, evolves into something much darker. One of the comic’s young creators is found dead a murder that soon takes the tenacious Rei deep into the heart of Japan’s youth underground. Immersed in the investigation, she finds herself floating through strip clubs, animation shops, and coffeehouses to get the true story and save her own skin.

The Bride’s Kimono

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 a gaggle of Japanese office ladies bent on a week of shopping, Rei lands in the capital. But her big break could ultimately break her. Within hours one of the kimonos is stolen, and then Rei’s passport is discovered in a shopping mall dumpster on the dead body of one of the Japanese tourists. Trouble is only beginning, though, for now Rei’s parents have arrived and so has her ex boyfriend. To track down the kimono and unmask a killer, Rei’s got to do some clever juggling, fast talking, and quick sleuthing, or this trip home could be her last.

The Samurai’s Daughter

A new crime thriller full of suspense from Sujata Massey, the acclaimed author of The Bride’s Kimono and The Floating Girl.

Antiques dealer Rei Shimura is in San Francisco visiting her parents and researching a personal project tracing the story of 100 years of Japanese decorative arts through her own family’s experience. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of her boyfriend, lawyer Hugh Glendinning, who is involved in a class action lawsuit on behalf of aged Asian nationals forced to engage in slave labour for Japanese companies during

World War II.

These two projects suddenly intertwine when one of Hugh’s clients is murdered and Rei begins to uncover unsavoury facts about her own family’s actions during the war. Rei unravels the truth, finds the killer, and at the same time learns about family ties and loyalty and the universal desire to avoid blame.

The Pearl Diver

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, and is commissioned to furnish a chic Japanese fusion restaurant, things start to go haywire. First, Kendall vanishes from the restaurant’s opening night party, and then Rei is drafted to help Andrea, the restaurant’s elegant, cagey hostess, investigate the disappearance of her own Japanese mother thirty years earlier. As the strands of these puzzles begin to come together, Rei finds that her relationship with her fianc 233;, Hugh, has changed from sizzle to burn. At the same time, she faces troubling questions about what it means to be a loving mother and whether her own independent streak will endanger the women to whom she has grown close. Rei must research the scary old days of the Vietnam War and delve into the secret history of an ambitious presidential candidate to piece together the mystery of the vanished women and also understand truths about herself, which may change her destiny. In The Pearl Diver, Sujata Massey delivers a multilayered, suspenseful story complete with the intrigue, romance, and rich Asian cultural background that her fans have come to relish.

The Typhoon Lover

A young woman with a foothold in two cultures, Rei Shimura has gone wherever fortune and her unruly passions have led her throughout her chaotic twenties. Now, after the streamers for her thirtieth birthday celebration have been taken down, the Japanese American antiques dealer and part time sleuth finds herself with an assignment to find and authenticate an ancient Middle Eastern pitcher that disappeared from Iraq’s national museum.

The piece is believed to be in the hands of a wealthy Japanese collector, whose passion for beauty extends to Rei herself. But when a devastating typhoon hits Tokyo, Rei is trapped with the object of her investigation and with much much more than the fate of an ancient pitcher at risk.

Girl in a Box

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 a big Tokyo department store. It’s a risky assignment, but it also gives Rei a store discount that allows her to freely indulge her shopaholic tendencies.

Meanwhile, she’s listening in on private conversations, crashing a conference, and fending off the unwanted advances of a couple of the store’s executives who seem fascinated by her navel ring. When her cover is blown, Rei is in big trouble. Suddenly she’s neck deep in something very nasty, and it will take all her resourcefulness and unorthodox methods to survive a determined killer.

Shimura Trouble

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 island and her young cousin is accused of arson, Rei, with the assistance of both her boyfriend and ex lover, must discover the truth, which turns out to be linked to the Shimura family history…

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