Rei Shimura

The Rei Shimura series is a series of mystery and suspense novels written by the Agatha Award winning American author of historical fiction and international mystery, named Sujata Massey. This series is comprised of a total of 11 mystery novels, which were released between the years 1997 and 2014. All the books in this series revolve around the life of the fictional character known as Rei Shimura. Rei is depicted as a Japanese-American woman who wishes to become a dealer of antique items and set up her own antiques shop in Tokyo, Japan. But, due to the mysterious events happening around her throughout the series, she is intrigued to take up the role of an amateur sleuth. Later on, Rei uses her identity as an antiques expert to hide her other identity as a sleuth in order to solve the mysteries with the help of her own independent investigation. The character of Rei Shimura makes her debut in the first book of the series titled ‘The Salaryman’s Wife’. In this book, she goes on to solve the mystery related to the murder of a woman during a sightseeing trip.