平原直美氏は、エドガー賞を受賞したマス・アライ・ミステリーシリーズ（帰化二世の庭師で原爆被爆者が事件を解決する）、オフィサー・エリー・ラッシュシリーズ、そして現在新しいレイラニ・サンティアゴ・ミステリーの著者です。彼女は、羅府新報の元編集者で、日系アメリカ人の経験に関するノンフィクション本を数冊執筆し、ディスカバー・ニッケイに12回シリーズの連載を何本か執筆しています。
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Chapter 2
2007年10月12日 • 平原 直美
Chapter 1 >> Solicitor Phyllis Hamakawa looked out her Toronto city council office and felt her stomach churn. She could have blamed the dim sum she ate at a lunch reception in Old Chinatown, one of the three Chinatowns in Toronto proper. But she knew her unease had nothing to do with shrimp har gau and everything to do with Terrence Spicer’s resignation from his ward position this morning. Although they discussed council business in public, she hadn’t spoken to …
Chapter 1
2007年9月14日 • 平原 直美
“There’s another one,” said Bob Shishido, almost in whisper. “No.” Greg went to the desk on the other side of the bungalow and looked over his father’s shoulder at the computer screen. It was a link to a Los Angeles Times story. Another death due to strawberries. This was the third case. All in Ontario, Canada. The Shishido Farm strawberries weren’t shipped to Canada. But that didn’t matter. Strawberries weren’t like packaged cookies or aspirin. People couldn’t tell the difference …
The Making of Mamo's Weeds: Mystery of an L.A. Gardener's Life
2007年6月7日 • 平原 直美
As I’ve stated before in interviews, it took me 15 years to get my first novel published. I rewrote it numerous times (maybe the first chapter 33 times!), eliminated major characters, revamped the plot, and changed the title about four times. The one thing that stayed the same was the lead character, Mas Arai, a Japanese American gardener and atomic bomb survivor. Only when the story transformed into a mystery did literary agents finally take notice. The title, Summer of …
