The Floating Girl: A Rei Shimura Mystery (Rei Shimura Mystery #4)
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I finally went back to bed and, two hours later, woke again when the fax machine in the corner of my bedroom started grunting. Allison had been true to her word and had sent a proposed agenda for my visit, as well as a contact name and number at the Morioka Museum in West Tokyo, which, the fax explained, was the institution that owned the kimono that I’d be carrying with me.
I blinked and read the line again. That’s right, she’d said very quickly when she was talking about timing that I needed to come early so that the kimono could be installed. She wanted me not only to speak, but to bring a small collection of Edo-period kimono on the plane. That’s why I was flying business class to America, and economy on the way back.
I knew that the transportation of museum pieces was something that took place daily at airports around the world—but I’d never done it. Would the Japanese museum trust me?
Looking into the mirror at my tousled early-morning appearance, I shook my head. No. Not this shaggy-haired, almond-eyed American citizen who had been around a few too many dead bodies. Add in the fact that I was twenty-eight and unattached; a rootless, untrustworthy woman who needed a cosigner for every financial or real-estate move she made. Allison Powell might be willing to give me a chance, but she didn’t know my full story the way people in Japan did. If she had known, she wouldn’t have called.
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Also by Sujata Massey
JAPANESE MYSTERY FICTION
The Kizuna Coast (Fall 2014)
The Convenience Boy and Other Stories of Japan
Shimura Trouble
Girl in a Box
The Typhoon Lover
The Pearl Diver
The Samurai’s Daughter
The Bride’s Kimono
The Floating Girl
The Flower Master
Zen Attitude
The Salaryman’s Wife
INDIA HISTORICAL FICTION
India Gray and More Stories of South Asia (December 2014)
The Ayah’s Tale
The Sleeping Dictionary