![]() I suppose there are worse places to spend New Year’s Eve than a crowded train with a stranger’s hand inching up your thigh. The first installment in the Rei Shimura series, The Salaryman's Wife is a riveting tale of death, love, and sex, told in a unique cross-cultural voice. ![]() In the meantime, she attempts to piece together a strange, ever-changing puzzle-one that is built on lies and held together by years of sex and deception. Taking charge, as usual, Rei searches for clues by crashing a funeral, posing as a bar-girl, and somehow ending up pursued by police and paparazzi alike. Rei is the first to find the beautiful wife of a high-powered businessman, dead in the snow. Her independence is threatened however, when a getaway to an ancient castle town is marred by murder. 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 does.) She's determined to make it on her own. ![]() ![]() Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. "Sujata Massey blasts her way into fiction with The Salaryman's Wife, a cross-cultural mystery of manners with a decidedly sexy edge."- Janet Evanonich ![]()
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