| Strawberry Yellow: A Mas Arai Mystery Contributor(s): Hirahara, Naomi (Author) |
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ISBN: 1938849027 ISBN-13: 9781938849022 Publisher: Prospect Park Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Asian American |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012042658 |
| Series: Mas Arai Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 8.2" (0.55 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |