Description: Underemployed Rei Shimura takes on a freelance job with an agency with ties to the CIA. As she goes undercover as a clerk in a large Tokyo department store, Rei also checks out all the latest fashions and uses her store discount to indulge her shopping impulses. But when her cover is blown, Rei is in big trouble and must unmask a ruthless killer.
Brief description:
Sujata Massey was a reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun and spent several years in Japan teaching English and studying Japanese. She is the author of The Salaryman's Wife, Zen Attitude, The Flower Master, The Floating Girl, The Bride's Kimono, The Samurai's Daughter, The Pearl Diver, and The Typhoon Lover. She lives in Minneapolis.
Review Quotes:
"Markedly different and delightful territory. . . . Great fun." - Baltimore Sun
"Massey deftly weaves Japanese culture, romance, and mystey together in this page-turner." - Metro magazine (Twin Cities)