Girl in a Box by Sujata Massey

Girl in a Box by Sujata Massey

It's taken me almost a whole lifetime to become a decent liar.

Award-winning author Sujata Massey is back with a delicious blend of mystery and contemporary women's fiction, and in Girl in a Box, Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura is on her most dangerous outing yet.

Chronically underemployed Rei takes a freelance gig with a Washington, D.C., alphabet agency that just might have ties to the CIA. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is to go undercover as a clerk in a big Tokyo department store. It's a tricky and risky assignment, but it also gives Rei the opportunity to check out all the latest fashions and use her store discount to indulge her shopping impulses.

Meanwhile, she's listening in on conversations not meant for her and crashing a conference she's not invited to. She winds up fending off the advances of a couple of the store's executives who seem to be fascinated by her navel ring. When her cover is blown, Rei is in big trouble, and it will take all her resourcefulness and unorthodox methods to unmask a killer.

Sujata Massey was born in England to Indian and German parents and raised in St. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and now resides in Baltimore, Maryland. Before becoming a full-time novelist, she worked as a features reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun. The Widows of Malabar Hill, Perveen Mistry's first novel, was an international success and received the Agatha, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. Sujata Massey's website is sujatamassey.com.