{"product_id":"9781938849022","title":"Strawberry Yellow (Mas Arai Series #5)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurmudgeonly Japanese American gardener and unwitting detective Mas Arai is back in this fifth in the Edgar Award–winning series. Naomi Hirahara has created a memorable protagonist unlike any other: a Hiroshima survivor, Los Angeles gardener, widower, gambler, grandfather, and solver of crimes. In \u003ci\u003eStrawberry Yellow\u003c\/i\u003e, he returns to the strawberry farms of his youth and encounters family intrigue, danger, and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series' most compelling and evocative mystery yet is set in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California, where young Mas first arrived as a Hiroshima survivor in the 1940s. He returns for the funeral of a cousin and quickly gets entangled in the murder of a young woman. Was his cousin murdered, too? Mas has to figure out what happened, keep himself safe, and uncover the mystery of the Strawberry Yellow blight and a new strawberry varietal so important that it could be inspiring a murderer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaomi Hirahara \u003c\/b\u003eis an engaging speaker who's always a hit at bookstore and mystery events. She's very active in the Japanese American community in California and is a past president of the southern California chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. She won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original Mystery for \u003ci\u003eSnakeskin Shamisen\u003c\/i\u003e, the third in the Mas Arai series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prospect Park Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048713404656,"sku":"9781938849022","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938849022_p0.jpg?v=1763664092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938849022","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}