Naomi Hirahara, Author . Delta $12 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-33759-5
In chapter one of Hirahara's seamless and shyly powerful first novel, a Japanese PI unsettles prickly, stubborn Mas Arai, Hiroshima survivor, widower and estranged father, and the other elderly Japanese-American gardeners who hang out at...
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Naomi Hirahara, Author . Delta $12 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-33760-1
If not as flawless as Nirahara's debut, Summer of the Big Bachi
(2004), the second outing for Japanese-American Mas Harai—Hiroshima survivor, Californian, gardener and sleuth—offers many of the same felicities. Mas's estranged...
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Naomi Hirahara, Author . Delta $12 (255p) ISBN 978-0-385-33961-2
In youth-obsessed Los Angeles, maturity and reticence work in favor of the 70ish gardener Mas Arai, Hirahara's reluctant hero, as he gets drawn into his highly enjoyable third mystery (after 2005's Gasa-Gasa Girl
). Mas leaves a party held...
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Naomi Hirahara, Author . Delacorte $15.99 (230p) ISBN 978-0-385-73556-8
In her first book for young readers, Edgar-winner Hirahara examines ruptured relationships and reinforced cultural heritage. Twelve-year-old Angela, the narrator, has been sent to spend the summer with her maternal grandparents outside Los Angeles,...
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Naomi Hirahara, Author Minotaur $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-54555-0
Edgar-winner Hirahara once again provides a sensitive insider’s view of the Japanese-American subculture in her fourth Mas Arai mystery (after 2006’s Snakeskin Shamisen
), though series fans may find this entry less strong than some....
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Naomi Hirahara. Prospect Park (Consortium, dist.), $15 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-938849-02-2
At the outset of Edgar-winner Hirahara’s engaging fifth whodunit featuring retired Japanese-American gardener Mas Arai (after 2010’s Blood Hina), Arai mourns the loss of second cousin Shug Arai, one of his few relatives in the U.S., who has expired...
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Naomi Hirahara. Berkley Prime Crime, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26495-9
Edgar-winner Hirahara, author of Summer of the Big Bachi and four other Mas Arai mysteries, introduces Ellie Rush, a Japanese-American rookie LAPD bicycle cop, in this highly entertaining series debut. When Jenny Nguyen, a former classmate of Ellie’s
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Naomi Hirahara. Berkley Prime Crime, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26496-6
In Edgar-winner Hirahara’s delightfully original follow-up to 2014’s Murder on Bamboo Lane, Ellie Rush, an LAPD bicycle cop, is on routine patrol on Grand Avenue, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall, when gardener Eduardo Fuentes is critically injured
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Naomi Hirahara. Prospect Park (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-938849-73-2
Edgar-winner Hirahara’s sixth Mas Arai mystery (after 2013’s Strawberry Yellow) is as likable as its septuagenarian hero, who was born in America and survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Now a semiretired gardener settled in Southern...
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Naomi Hirahara. Prospect Park, $16 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-945551-08-6
In Edgar-winner Hirahara’s moving seventh and final Mas Arai mystery (after 2016’s Sayonara Slam), the 85-year-old retired L.A. gardener reluctantly returns to Japan, his birthplace, for the first time in almost 50 years, to carry the ashes of his...
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Naomi Hirahara. Prospect Park, $25.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-945551-63-5
All is not perfect on the island of Kauai in this uneven series launch from Edgar winner Hirahara (the Mas Arai series), as college dropout Leilani Santiago discovers when she returns home from Seattle to spend her days creating shave ice, the...
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Naomi Hirahara. Soho Crime, $27.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-64129-249-8
Set during WWII, this fascinating standalone from Edgar winner Hirahara (the Mas Arai series) focuses on a Japanese American family, the Itos, who in 1942 are sent with what possessions they can carry from L.A. to the Manzanar internment camp in the
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Naomi Hirahara. Soho Crime, $27.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-64129-359-4
Hirahara’s insightful follow-up to 2021’s Edgar-winning Clark and Division finds newly married Aki Nakasone returning to Los Angeles in 1946, two years after her family was forcibly relocated to the Manzanar internment camp in Illinois. Aki is...
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Naomi Hirahara. Prospect Park, $17.99 trade paper (206p) ISBN 978-1-684427-96-3
The Covid pandemic provides the backdrop for Edgar winner Hirahara’s entertaining sequel to 2019’s Iced in Paradise. By October 2020, travel restrictions have eliminated the tourism industry on Kaua‘i, and Leilani Santiago’s hopes of marketing her...
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Naomi Hirahara. Soho Crime, $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-608-3
The intriguing latest in Hiarhara’s Japantown series (after Evergreen) centers on Ryunosuke “Louie” Wada, an 18-year-old orphan who leaves Yokohama, Japan, for the immigrant hub of sunny Pasadena, Calif., at the turn of the 20th century. Louie was...
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