The Typhoon Lover – Sujata Massey
Rei Shimura, the indomitable Japanese antiques expert and detective, is back and solving mysteries with her customary aplomb. Even better, she’s in Japan again, a huge relief after her last adventure, in which she was stuck in Washington D.C.
Rei and her lawyer boyfriend are having problems (be’s a boozer) when she’s approached by the Sackler Gallery to return to Japan and investigate a former lover for international art fraud. Before you know it, she’s working for that secret government agency that cannot be named, navigating Japanese culture — and we’re having the time of her life.
I do like this series.
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[...] I have read every single book in this series, but I have to say: my interest is waning. The younger Rei was edgy and interesting, the Japanese antiques world was fascinating, the cultural tensions delicious. Rei is now a contractor for the CIA and goes undercover in a Japanese department store. She has the hots for her boss, who of course, has the hots for her too. But the Japan Rei now inhabits is bland and colorless–that is, except for the never-ending description of Japanese haute couture she succumbs to as a salesgirl. [...]