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. 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. Skeletons are rattling in her family’s closet, and Rei must open the door to a dangerous secret. She and her aunt are battered by waves of police questioning, press attention, and mysterious warnings. Rei is ready to track down the killer, but suddenly the case hits close to home. Little does she realize what a cutthroat class it will be she’s hardly completed a lesson before her instructor is murdered. At her aunt’s insistence, Rei enrolls in a course in ikebana, the famous Japanese art of flower arranging. Lately Rei’s love life has fallen off the radar screen, and despite all her efforts, her new business isn’t doing much better. Rei Shimura, a twentysomething part California girl, part Japanese antiques dealer, can’t quite find her place in Tokyo society. 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.Īgatha 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.

Massey’s first novel, The Salaryman’s Wife, has just been nominated for the prestigious Anthony Award.

Sujata Massey is an exciting new author published by HarperPaperbacks. 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. 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. But when Rei overpays for a beautiful chest of drawers, she’s in for the worst deal of her life. 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.

The satapur moonstone by sujata massey