{"product_id":"strawberry-yellow-a-mas-arai-mystery-9781684428649","title":"Strawberry Yellow: A Mas Arai Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurmudgeonly Japanese American gardener and unwitting detective Mas Arai is back in this fifth in the Edgar Award-winning series. Naomi Hirahara has created a memorable protagonist unlike any other: a Hiroshima survivor, Los Angeles gardener, widower, gambler, grandfather, and solver of crimes. In \u003ci\u003eStrawberry Yellow\u003c\/i\u003e, he returns to the strawberry farms of his youth and encounters family intrigue, danger, and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series' most compelling and evocative mystery yet is set in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California, where young Mas first arrived as a Hiroshima survivor in the 1940s. He returns for the funeral of a cousin and quickly gets entangled in the murder of a young woman. Was his cousin murdered, too? Mas has to figure out what happened, keep himself safe, and uncover the mystery of the Strawberry Yellow blight and a new strawberry varietal so important that it could be inspiring a murderer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Prospect Park Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684428649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Naomi Hirahara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096276369589,"sku":"9781684428649","price":23.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_42006eea-e3b2-43ac-81ae-106ce6073661.jpg?v=1692804704","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/strawberry-yellow-a-mas-arai-mystery-9781684428649","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}