num_pages: 400
description: Life in Japan for a transplanted California with a fledging 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 plenty of excitement she's been missing.Unfortunately too many people have a reason for committing the crime--her aunt included. While struggling to adjust to the nuances of Japanese propriety, trying to keep her business afloat, and dealing with veiled massages left under her door, Rei sifts the bones of old skeletons to keep her family name clear--and her own life safe from an enemy with a mysterious agenda. If Rei doesn't want to be crushed like fallen cherry blossoms, she's going to have to walk a perilous line and uncover the killer with a dramatic flare for deadly arrangements.
language: English
title: The Flower Master
titlecomplete: The Flower Master
genres: Crime, Japan, Asia, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Japanese Literature, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 1749
series: Rei Shimura
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: HarperTorch