The Flower Master A Rei Shimura Mystery Rei Shimura Mysteries Book 3 edition by Sujata Massey Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Rei Shimura, a California girl living in Tokyo, has an antiques business that's only slightly more successful than her love life. When her aunt enrolls her in the Kayama School of Ikebana to learn how to arrange flowers, disaster strikes. A mean teacher is found with scissors in her neck, and Takeo Kayama, the sexy billionaire heir to the school, considers Rei's aunt the main suspect.
Rei strives to prove her aunt's innocence but becomes enmeshed in a web of upper-class ladies, edgy environmental protesters, and young immigrants trying to make it in one of the world's most exciting and expensive cities. As danger rises, clues are sent to Rei in haiku poems that hint her family played a role in an old Kayama School tragedy that threatens not just her romantic future with Takeo--but her own life.
Booklist called THE FLOWER MASTER "a totally captivating experience." School Library Journal recognized it as a "rich, robust read," and praised Rei as "a lively protagonist who brings the reader along for an entertaining, subtle lesson in Japanese culture, as well as the dangers in digging up buried family secrets." This novel won the Macavity Award for Best Traditional Mystery and was a finalist for the 2000 Agatha Best Mystery Award.
The Flower Master A Rei Shimura Mystery Rei Shimura Mysteries Book 3 edition by Sujata Massey Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
The Rei Shimura series is a compelling look at a young woman who shares two races and is equally comfortable (or maybe uncomfortable at times!) in both cultures. She chases and is chased by two men throughout the series of a dozen book, while buying and selling antique art in and from Japan. It really is fun wondering what sort of mis-step she'll make in each book to tumble her into her latest mystery.This story takes place in Japan, with Rei trying her best to defend her auntie's honor after a gruesome murder.
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The Flower Master A Rei Shimura Mystery Rei Shimura Mysteries Book 3 edition by Sujata Massey Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I very much like Sujata Massey's style, and I am quite taken with her main character Rea Shimura. I also like the views that Massey gives us of Japanese life through the eyes of a Westerner.
I felt that this, her third novel, was another pleasureable romp, following Rea as she gets unwillingly involved in and solves yet another mystery.
I found, however, that this tale did not fire my interest as her others had. I enjoyed meeting her friends again and watching a new man enter that circle. I liked the insights into Ikebana culture.
I only gave it three stars, however, because I felt that the the lengthy build-up led to a surprising but not particularly exciting resolution. As I finally closed the book my feeling was - Okay, hmmm. Nowhere near a Wow!
I have no doubt that other readers who, like me, anticipate the latest Massey story will want to read this one. I am just hoping that the next is more gripping, intriquing, moving....
I've spent a lot of time in Japan and find her books very true to what modern Japan feels like. I've heard the cliche, "The Japanese are so polite" so many times from people who have never been to Japan that I could scream. You can pretty much get an idea of the appropriateness of that cliche from Massey's books.
It's so much fun to remember the areas she mentions. In this book she mentions the Ocha no Mizu area. This means tea water. When you walk out of the Ocha no Mizu train station there's a river which I imagine looked like tea water to someone important. There's an overgrown park nearby with a very dark and ancient temple. Not far, off a main street, is a beautifully restored very colorful temple.
So, if you've been to Japan--particularly Tokyo, you will enjoy the references to the neighborhoods in all of her books.
I guess I should talk more about the book. In this book we learn how her relationship with Takeo started. He seems much nicer and more reasonable as a boyfriend than he does in a later book, "The Bride's Kimono".
This book is a great mix of interesting characters, murder, and intrigue sprinkled with humour. The best part is that it all takes place in Japan--one of my favorite countries.
If you can, I recommend that you read these books in order of publication. I haven't and find it slightly confusing.
The plot of "Flower Master" was much easier to follow--and to enjoy--than in the same author's "Salaryman's Wife." Even so, some of the protagonist's encounters with key characters seemed to just magically occur, without foreshadowing or any explanation for the remarkable coincidence of their being in the same place at the same time, in Tokyo, one of the largest cities in the world.
The character development was better for some (especially for her Aunt Rieko) than in the prior novel.
I was very surprised by the author's description of the protagonist asking a Japanese acquaintance if she suffers from cancer--a culturally "shameful" diagnosis that Japanese doctors often conceal from both patient and family ("It's a stomach ulcer" is a common euphimism for colon cancer). It would be entirely inappropriate to ask if your acquaintance has cancer, certainly during the time frame of this novel.
The ending resolution of the mystery seemed rushed, without adequate plot development to make it believable.
The tenth and final installment of Rei's adventures, "Shimura Trouble", came out this past spring and is apparently having great trouble getting copies from its British publisher. While you wait for a copy to become available, you will want to revisit this, in my opinion, the strongest entry in the Rei series, both for its completely, affectionately inhabited Tokyo setting, but also for the meticulous (and oddly, for Westerners) compelling descriptions of the classical Japanese art of ikebana. The mystery set-up here, and its resolution, is also one of the better-plotted and surprising. In later installments, Massey has a tendency to overplay her hand, telegraphing well in advance who probably dunnit, but I guarantee that is not the case here. Events of the plot aside, you may even want to take up ikebana when you are done, it's that interesting.
When we last left Rei, she had settled into a domestic routine with Hugh Glendinning in his luxury apartment in Roppongi. She continues to reside there uneasily, torn over both commitment to Hugh and being a denizen of the most elite neighborhood in Tokyo. She counters this dose of Westernization by signing up for flower arranging lessons at a local school. This installment gives a prominent role to Rei's delightfully efficient Aunt Norie, who we will never enjoy in such largesse again. This book also introduces the mysterious Takeo Kayama, the wealthy heir to the flower arranging empire who presents an attractive, and Japanese, alternative to Hugh. In her ambivilent state, Rei is definitely torn, even if Kayama-kun himself may be sinister. This third installment continues, and improves upon, the strong plotlines, quirky characters and interesting tidbits about Japanese cultural icons and mores that Massey started in the two previous efforts. This was actually the first book in this series that came to my attention, and it hooked me immediately, even without Rei's backstory from the prequels. I have read them all now, and still believe "The Flower Master" is the best of the lot. If you only read one Rei Shimura mystery, this is the one to choose. But of course, this book is so captivating, you will want to read them all. Not all of Massey's later efforts live up to the high bar she set herself with her first three books, but you will never find another sleuth like Rei Shimura, "honto ni". (Truly!)
The Rei Shimura series is a compelling look at a young woman who shares two races and is equally comfortable (or maybe uncomfortable at times!) in both cultures. She chases and is chased by two men throughout the series of a dozen book, while buying and selling antique art in and from Japan. It really is fun wondering what sort of mis-step she'll make in each book to tumble her into her latest mystery.
This story takes place in Japan, with Rei trying her best to defend her auntie's honor after a gruesome murder.
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