New Releases by Sujata Massey

An orphaned girl. A cruel twist of fate. A spectacular adventure. Bengal, 1930. Young Pom’s life changes forever when her family is wiped out in a devastating flood. She becomes a maidservant in a British boarding school where she discovers her gift for languages. Amidst the drudgery of her duties, she finds unexpected friendship and experiences the stirrings of first love. However, tragedy strikes and she is forced into hiding. Alone and desperate, she is recruited into a brothel for English officers. She hopes this secretive, decadent world will shield her from the demons of her past. But fate intervenes, and our heroine is on the run again—to Calcutta, the city of palaces, where she finds herself caught up in the rising tide of Indian nationalism. Changing her name to Kamala, she creates a new life for herself, one that holds the promise of happiness and true love . . . until her past returns haunt her. Filled with romance, danger, intrigue and betrayal, The City of Palaces is a lush, sprawling saga about a feisty young heroine and her struggle for survival. ‘Sujata masterfully weaves her heroine’s life with India’s struggle and fight for freedom and gives us an elegant piece of Indian history wrapped beautifully in Pom’s story’—Amulya Malladi, author of The Mango Season

Winner of the Agatha Award. "Sujata Massey blasts her way into fiction with The Salaryman''s Wife, a cross-cultural mystery of manners with a decidedly sexy edge."-- Janet Evanonich 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.) She''s determined to make it on her own. 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 attempts to piece together a strange, ever-changing puzzle—one that is built on lies and held together by years of sex and deception. The first installment in the Rei Shimura series, The Salaryman''s Wife is a riveting tale of death, love, and sex, told in a unique cross-cultural voice.

Kamala, a young peasant woman from West Bengal is drawn into a forbidden romance in 1930s Calcutta and is caught between the country''s independence movement and the British colonial society in which she lives. Original.

The seventh book in Sujata Massey''s Agatha and Macavity Award–winning mystery series is a witty, suspenseful story that takes its young sleuth into the Washington DC restaurant world. A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start bring antiques dealer and sometime sleuth Rei Shimura to Washington, DC. But just as she''s starting to settle down –catching up with a long–lost cousin and undertaking a lucrative commission furnishing a trendy Japanese restaurant nearby – things begin to go haywire. First, her cousin vanishes from the restaurant''s opening–night party, and then Rei is drafted to help find a Japanese war bride who disappeared 30 years earlier. The search for both missing women becomes suspiciously linked, and along the way, Rei faces truths about herself that may change her destiny – if she lives long enough.

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.

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 . . .

Die Vorboten des Taifuns wüten heftig, als Rei Shimura in Tokio eintrifft. Endlich ist sie zurück in ihrer zweiten Heimat. Doch die Kunstexpertin und erprobte Hobbydetektivin hat weder Zeit für den Wetterbericht noch für ausgedehnte Verwandtenbesuche. Mög

In Tokyo for a course in flower arrangement, sleuth Rei Shimura, an Amerasian from San Francisco, investigates the murder of an instructor at her school. Suspects include Japan''s Stop Killing Flowers movement.

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 drawers for a wealthy client, the owner of a famous Zen temple in Kamakura. The exquisite tansu turns out to be a fake: the worst deal Rei has ever made. When the temple family turns on Rei -- and the con man who sold the tansu is murdered -- she realizes she''s opened a Pandora''s box of deception and murder. A young martial artist, an aspiring rock singer, and an elderly antiques mentor all become part of Rei''s search for the killer through the shadows of an ancient culture. As her world begins to rapidly and inexplicably unravel, Rei realizes that it will take strength, wit, and a Zen attitude to survive.

The newest book in the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning mystery series is a witty and suspenseful story that sends sleuth Rei Shimura from Washington, D.C., to Tokyo and back again on a mysterious quest.

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.

Vi befinner oss i Tokyo, der den japansk-amerikanske antikvitetshandleren Rey lever godt sammen med stjerneadvokaten Hugh. Men så får Rey uventede bekymringer. Hun har fått i oppdrag å skaffe en "tansu" - en kommode - til en kunde, men må betale overpris for den. Verre er det at tansuen er noe annet enn det hun hadde trodd, og hun føler seg grundig lurt. Og enda verre er det at noen er tydelig villig til å drepe for å få tak i tansuen. Rei avtaler et møte med kontaktmannen for å få kjøpet hevet, men finner ham død når hun kommer til møteplassen. Rei bestemmer seg for å finne ut hvilke hemmeligheter tansuen skjuler, noe som leder til ytterligere dødsfall og fare for henne selv.

Japanese-American writer Rei Shimura finally feels at home in Tokyo. Working on an article about the history of comic book art, her story turns when the creator of a comic book, which reveals the social milieu of pre-World War II Japan, is found dead. Rei finds herself floating through Japan''s youth underground to get the story--and save her own skin. A Mystery Guild Selection.

While struggling to adjust to the nuances of Japanese propriety, trying to keep her business afloat, and dealing with veiled messages left under her door, Rei Shimura sifts through the bones of old skeletons to keep her family name clear and her own life safe from an enemy with a mysterious agenda. If Rei doesn''t want to be crushed, she''s must walk a perilous line and uncover a killer with a dramatic flare for deadly arrangements.

Een Japans-Amerikaanse lerares treft tijdens een korte vakantie in een oude Japanse kasteelstad het lijk van de vrouw van een vooraanstaand zakenman aan.

"Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay. Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father''s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women''s legal rights. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen is going through the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on if they forfeit what their husband left them? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X--meaning she probably couldn''t even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah--in strict seclusion, never leaving the women''s quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts about the will were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger."--