Sujata Massey

Sujata Massey is a mystery writer born 1964 in Sussex, England who emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 5. She attended Johns Hopkins University graduating in 1986 and worked on the Baltimore Evening Sun.

She is best known for her series featuring Rei Shimura, a Californian born to a Japanese father and an American mother. Many of her novels are set in Japan and in Washington, D.C. On her official Website, Massey states that she has begun work on a new Rei Shimura book set in post-tsunami Japan entitled The Kizuna Coast. She is also writing a new historical suspense series called The Daughters of Bengal. The first book in the series is The Sleeping Dictionary and is set in British India between 1930 and 1947. In this novel, a ten-year-old peasant girl, Pom, orphaned by a cyclone, undertakes an odyssey through colonial Bengal in order to survive. With literacy skills, social intelligence and charm, she moves from servitude at a girls' boarding school in Midnapore to a pleasure house in Kharagpur, eventually reaching Calcutta where she becomes involved in the Indian freedom movement during World War II. Other novels in the Daughters of Bengal historical fiction series will feature Pom's descendants in newly independent India.

The Rei Shimura novels

• The Salaryman's Wife (1997)
• Zen Attitude (1998)
• The Flower Master (1999)
• The Floating Girl (2000)
• The Bride's Kimono (2001)
• The Samurai's Daughter (2003)
• The Pearl Diver (2004)
• The Typhoon Lover (2005)
• Girl in a Box (2006)
• Shimura Trouble (June 2008)
• The Kizuna Coast (December 2014)

The Daughters of Bengal Series

• The Sleeping Dictionary (August 2013)

External links

• Official site
• Mystery Woman, Nirali Magazine, September 2004