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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Not as got as her previos book, but a decent read. I love the character of Rei, she meets Takeo in this book. I'm enjoying the series. traveling.
Fluff, but fun.
Really like this mysteries set in Japan
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26+ Works 6,632 Members
Sujata Massey was born in Sussex, England in 1964 and graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1986. She moved to Japan after marrying a Naval officer stationed there, taking a job as an English teacher. Massey is the author of "The Salaryman's Wife," winner of the 1998 Agatha Award for Best First Novel, and "Zen Attitude," mysteries set in show more contemporary Japan. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Il giallo Mondadori (2893)
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- Canonical title
- The Flower Master
- Original title
- The Flower Master
- Original publication date
- 1999-04-07; 1999
- People/Characters*
- Rei Shimura
- Important places*
- Tokio, Japan
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