![]() ![]() ![]() Budo folks considering a few years in Japan will get a sneak preview of what life there is really like. Mystery fans will enjoy the well-crafted plot, lively characters, and satisfying denouement. When the other foreigner on the scene, a Scotsman by the name of Hugh Glendinning, is jailed based on an innocent comment of Rei's, she begins to delve into the murder, for so it turns out to be. On a year end vacation in a castle town up in the mountains, Rei becomes embroiled in the death of a salaryman's wife, literally stumbling upon her body in the snow. She ekes out a precarious existence as an English language teacher in Tokyo (sound familiar?). The heroine, Rei Shimura, is an American woman whose father is Japanese. If you want to know what life in urban Japan is like, read these books! ![]() These novels portray with stunning accuracy a foreigner's daily life in Tokyo. Well, it is summer, and we are supposed to take some time off for more frivolous pursuits, but that's not why I'm introducing Sujata Massey's books to you here. What on earth is this review doing here? A murder mystery with no connection to the martial arts? ![]()
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