Sujata Massey

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1997
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Perveen Mistry Novel

1 - The Widows of Malabar Hill (Jan-2018)
2 - The Satapur Moonstone (Feb-2019)
3 - The Bombay Prince (Jun-2021)
4 - The Mistress of Bhatia House (Jul-2023)

Rei Shimura

1 - The Salaryman's Wife (Jul-1997)
2 - Zen Attitude (Jun-1998)
3 - The Flower Master (Apr-1999)
4 - The Floating Girl (Apr-2000)
5 - The Bride's Kimono (Sep-2001)
6 - The Samurai's Daughter (Mar-2003)
7 - The Pearl Diver (Aug-2004)
8 - The Typhoon Lover (Oct-2005)
9 - Girl in a Box (Sep-2006)
10 - Shimura Trouble (Jun-2008)
10.5 - Convenience Boy and Other Stories of Japan (Jul-2011)
11 - The Kizuna Coast (Jan-2015)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • The Salaryman's Wife

    Rei Shimura - 1

    Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she ...

  • Zen Attitude

    Rei Shimura - 2

    IT'S TOUGH TO KEEP COOL WHEN THE HEAT IS ON Japanese-American Rei Shimura finally has a life to be proud of in Tokyo, running her own antiques business and living with her Scottish lawyer boyfriend. But when Rei overpays for a beautiful chest of d...

  • The Flower Master

    Rei Shimura - 3

    Life in Japan for a transplanted Californian with a fledgling 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 plen...

  • The Floating Girl

    Rei Shimura - 4

    Half-American, half-Japanese, Rei Shimura is finally beginning to feel like Tokyo is home. Now a writer on art and antiques at the Gaijin Times, a comic-style magazine aimed at affluent young readers, Rei's latest assignment is a piece on the history...

  • The Bride's Kimono

    Rei Shimura - 5

    Antiques dealer Rei Shimura has managed to snag one of the most lucrative and prestigious jobs of her career: a renowned museum in Washington, D.C., has invited her to exhibit rare kimonos and give a lecture on them. Accompanied by a gaggle of Japane...

  • The Samurai's Daughter

    Rei Shimura - 6

    Antiques dealer Rei Shimura is in San Francisco visiting her parents and researching a personal project to trace the story of 100 years of Japanese decorative arts through her own family's history. But Rei's work is interrupted by the arrival of her ...

  • The Pearl Diver

    Rei Shimura - 7

    A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start in a new country bring antiques dealer and sometime-sleuth Rei Shimura to Washington, D.C. But while she tries to play catch-up with her beautiful, politically connected cousin, Kendall, and...

  • The Typhoon Lover

    Rei Shimura - 8

    Rei Shimura is back -- in her most thrilling adventure yet. Award-winning author Sujata Massey delivers another gripping novel of suspense featuring the sly, sexy Rei -- antiques dealer and part-time sleuth who has gone anywhere that fortune and unru...

  • Goodwood Gardens

    in Baltimore Noir

    Akashic Books charges forth with its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with BROOKLYN NOIR. Each book is comprised- of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. ...



  • Girl in a Box

    Rei Shimura - 9

    It's taken me almost a whole lifetime to become a decent liar. award-winning author Sujata Massey is back with a delicious blend of mystery and contemporary women's fiction, and in Girl in a Box, Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura is on her mos...

  • Shimura Trouble

    Rei Shimura - 10

    A Rei Shimura Mystery - During a family reunion on the island of Oahu, Japanese-American undercover spy Rei Shimura is roped into helping the Hawaiian branch of her family regain land stolen from them during World War II. But when fire sweeps the isl...

  • Convenience Boy and Other Stories of Japan

    Rei Shimura - 10.5

    In this mini-book of short stories, Rei Shimura solves 3 very different mysteries. The title story, "The Convenience Boy," tests Japanese romantic rituals in an unexpectedly humorous way. "Junior High Samurai" sends Rei back to her teaching roots as ...

  • The Deepest Blue Short Story

    Rei Shimura travels to the remote Japanese island of Shikoku to collect hand-dyed indigo cloth. But when the artist refuses to sell, she uncovers a haunting mystery that touches on the divide between family love and artistic ambition. This is a solo ...

  • The Junior High Samurai Short Story

    Rei Shimura moonlights at a teacher at a Japanese junior high, where a shy student vanishes. It's up to her to find out who did it, in a mystery that delves into class tensions, xenophobia and bullying. This solo short story also appears in the colle...

  • The Sleeping Dictionary

    YOU ASK FOR MY NAME, THE REAL ONE, AND I CANNOT TELL. IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF EFFORT. In 1930, a great ocean wave blots out a Bengali village, leaving only one survivor, a young girl. As a maidservant in a British boarding school, Pom is renamed Sar...

  • The Kizuna Coast

    Rei Shimura - 11

    When a devastating earthquake rocks Japan's northeast coast, a tsunami follows and Rei Shimura is drawn into her most rugged adventure yet. The mystery begins with an SOS from Rei's friend, the antiques dealer, Yasushi Ishida, who's trapped among the...

  • India Gray

    Travel to the Indian subcontinent with a new collection of Sujata Massey's suspenseful historical fiction. This boxed set includes four works described below: OUTNUMBERED AT OXFORD. When Perveen Mistry leaves Bombay to study law at St. Hilda's Colleg...

  • The Widows of Malabar Hill

    A Perveen Mistry Novel - 1

    1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winnin...

  • The Satapur Moonstone

    A Perveen Mistry Novel - 2

    India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before ...



  • The Bombay Prince

    A Perveen Mistry Novel - 3

    Bombay’s first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installme...

  • The Mistress of Bhatia House

    A Perveen Mistry Novel - 4

    Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey’s award-winning series.Indi...

Award-Winning Books by Sujata Massey

The Flower Master
2000 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel
The Salaryman's Wife
1997 Agatha Award -- First Novel
The Widows of Malabar Hill
2018 Agatha Award -- Historical
2019 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Mary Higgins Clark Award
2019 Macavity Award -- Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sujata Massey has published 21 books.

Sujata Massey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Mistress of Bhatia House, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Sujata Massey, The Salaryman's Wife, was published in July 1997.

Yes. Sujata Massey has 2 series.
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