{"product_id":"strawberry-yellow-a-mas-arai-mystery-9781938849022","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 \"Strawberry Yellow,\" 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\u003cp\u003eNaomi Hirahara is an engaging speaker who's always a hit at bookstore and mystery events. She's very active in the Japanese American community in California and is a past president of the southern California chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. She won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original Mystery for \"Snakeskin Shamisen,\" the third in the Mas Arai series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\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 9781938849022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/28\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2013 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naomi Hirahara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39956311998645,"sku":"9781938849022","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_632c1707-4312-4afd-b170-ee5513045fc4.jpg?v=1620219980","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/strawberry-yellow-a-mas-arai-mystery-9781938849022","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}