Description
Curmudgeonly Japanese American gardener and unwitting detective Mas Arai is back in this fifth in the Edgar Award-winning series. Naomi Hirahara has created a memorable protagonist unlike any other: a Hiroshima survivor, Los Angeles gardener, widower, gambler, grandfather, and solver of crimes. In Strawberry Yellow, he returns to the strawberry farms of his youth and encounters family intrigue, danger, and murder.
The series' most compelling and evocative mystery yet is set in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California, where young Mas first arrived as a Hiroshima survivor in the 1940s. He returns for the funeral of a cousin and quickly gets entangled in the murder of a young woman. Was his cousin murdered, too? Mas has to figure out what happened, keep himself safe, and uncover the mystery of the Strawberry Yellow blight and a new strawberry varietal so important that it could be inspiring a murderer.
Author: Naomi Hirahara
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Published: 02/23/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781938849022
ISBN10: 1938849027
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Amateur Sleuth
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Traditional
- Fiction | Asian American
About the Author
Naomi Hirahara: Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, including "Gasa Gasa Girl, Summer of the Big Bachi, Snakeskin Shamesin, " and "Blood Hina." She lives in California.