by Sujata Massey
The strength of using a first person point of view is voice, personality. Unfortunately, for me the voice of Rei Shimura, a 27-year-old American living in Japan, grates on me. She might be called prickly if I were being kind, and I found her a rather unamiable presence to filter this story through, ...
Really really liked it—reminded me of an Elizabeth Peters mystery—but I guessed both who the murderer was and their motive a third of the way through the book.
This book is the first in a mystery series set in contemporary (1990s) Japan. This book grabbed my attention in the first few chapters with the murder and the descriptions of Japanese culture. However, the book seemed to drag on and it was difficult to figure out why the main character cared so mu...
"I thought ruefully about about the Japanese belief that that there are no coincidences, that everything is part of a great cosmic plan."An interesting mystery set in Japan - in small towns and in Tokyo. I loved the descriptions of the setting and the culture. The story was well done, but there we...
This was pretty decent contemporary mystery/fiction. Set in modern day Japan the protagonist is a Japanese-American woman (Rei Shimura) living in Tokyo who stumbles into solving crimes. Not the most plausible plot, but it was an enjoyable story with interesting characters and some interesting cult...
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