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Crown City, February 2026
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Evergreen, July 2024
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Evergreen, August 2023
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Clark and Division, August 2021
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Grave On Grand Avenue, April 2015
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Murder on Bamboo Lane, April 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Blood Hina: A Mas Arai Mystery, March 2010
Hardcover
Summer of the Big Bachi, February 2008
Paperback
Snakeskin Shamisen, May 2006
Hardcover
Gasa-Gasa Girl, March 2005
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EVERGREEN
By: Naomi Hirahara

Japantown Mystery
Soho Crime
August 2023
On Sale: August 1, 2023
312 pages
ISBN: 1641293594
EAN: 9781641293594
Kindle: B0BL6PCYWP
Hardcover / e-Book
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Trade Paperback (reprint - July 2024)

Mystery

A Japanese American nurse's aide navigates the dangers of post-WWII and post-Manzanar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family in this follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning Clark and Division.

It’s been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California—but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded Los Angeles.

Aki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries. When she seeks out his son, she is shocked to recognize her husband’s best friend, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse?

Only a few days later, Little Tokyo is rocked by a murder at the low-income hotel where the Watanabes have been staying. When the cops start sniffing around Aki’s home, she begins to worry that the violence tearing through her community might threaten her family. What secrets have the Watanabes been hiding, and can Aki protect her husband from getting tangled up in a murder investigation?