- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (4 April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0061097349
- ISBN-13: 978-0061097348
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 11.2 x 8.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 937,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Life in Japan for a transplanted California with a fledging antiques business and a nonexistent love life isn't always fun, but when the flower arranging class Rei Shimura's aunt cajoles her into taking turns into a stage for murder, Rei finds plenty of excitement she's been missing. Unfortunately too many people have a reason for committing the crime--her aunt included. While struggling to adjust to the nuances of Japanese propriety, trying to keep her business afloat, and dealing with veiled massages left under her door, Rei sifts the bones of old skeletons to keep her family name clear--and her own life safe from an enemy with a mysterious agenda. If Rei doesn't want to be crushed like fallen cherry blossoms, she's going to have to walk a perilous line and uncover the killer with a dramatic flare for deadly arrangements.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It's cherry blossom time in Tokyo, a time when the residents go slightly mad in a way Westerners may not totally understand. That is why we are fortunate to have antiques dealer/sleuth Rei Shimura guide us through the customs and traditions that make her adopted home of Japan so fascinating. The Flower Master, third in this award-winning series, presents the hothouse world of competitive flower arrangers, a growing movement of environmental terrorists, and put's Rei's aunt Norie right in the middle of a murder that may come pretty close to home.
Now, I have no business reading anything since I've got a deadline looming, but I just couldn't resist. Sujata Massey's writing is so fluid, so clean, so right. I loved the charming details which illuminated the tyrannies, power-brokering, and jealousies found within Japan's foremost ikebana community. Massey creates each Tokyo neighborhood in such sensual detail, it's hard to come up for air and realize you're not living in Rei's Japan anymore. Sujata Massey is also brilliaint at finding the most enticingly exotic element in what, to others, might appear mundane daily life. As Rei gets deeper into her investigation, we learn everything from how to get our ailments diagnosed at a tea shop to what happens to a Range Rover in the narrow streets of Tokyo's older sections, to how to properly apologize, as Rei's aunt instructs both Rei and us on how to select the proper gift from the proper shop to show the proper respect. I loved this book. The Flower Master shows a superb series that is growing even stronger.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Half Japanese and half American, Rei Shimina grew up in California, but now calls Japan home. Though she struggles to adapt to the culture of her father's relatives, she has carved out a profession as a successful antiques' buyer. Without asking, her Aunt Norrie enrolls Rei in the prestigious Kayama School to study ikebana (flower arranging). To show respect to her aunt, Rei attends the classes.
At school, Rei quickly learns that the powerful Sakira Sato loathes Norrie. Not too long after classes start, Norrie finds a dead Sakira, an apparent victim of a pair of ikebana scissors. The police suspect Norrie. She found the body, shared a known grudge with the victim, and owned the murderer weapon. Rei begins to investigate who actually killed Sakira.
Masterful storyteller Sujata Massey paints a vivid portrait of modern Japan that brings to life the people and the clashing cultures. The story line flows rapidly along a journey in which anything can and does occur. Rei is an extremely likable protagonist whose trek for self awareness has traveled much afar from where she was in her previous tale. THE FLOWER MASTER is a master of a tale that fans of Japanes mysteries will relish until the next book in the series appears.
Harriet Klausner
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the first book on Rei Shimura that I've read and I could not put it down.
Rei Shimura is half Japanese and half American, brought up in America with holidays spent in Japan. In her late twenties she is now living in Japan and has to cope with all the idiosyncracies of the Japanese culture and society from a western point of view.
Rei runs an antique business and is following an Ikebana class when one of the teachers is killed. She helps to uncover the murderer.
Well written.
Rei Shimura is half Japanese and half American, brought up in America with holidays spent in Japan. In her late twenties she is now living in Japan and has to cope with all the idiosyncracies of the Japanese culture and society from a western point of view.
Rei runs an antique business and is following an Ikebana class when one of the teachers is killed. She helps to uncover the murderer.
Well written.
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Another delightful adventure full of suspence and fun!
Sujata Massey's third story in what I hope continues to be a long series has the reader enjoying another delightful adventure with Rei Shimura, an American who cannot live an... Read more
Published on 1 Sep 1999
It's always a pleasure to see another book from Ms. Massey.
Beyond the mysteries in Sujata Massey's books, which are always intriguing, it's wonderful to learn more about Japan through Rei's eyes. Read more
Published on 19 Jun 1999
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