The Bride's Kimono
HarperCollins, September, 2001.
Hardcover, 310 pages.
ISBN: 0060199334
Rei Shimura, a Japanese American antiques dealer living in Tokyo
is offered what sounds like a dream job: an all-expenses paid
trip to Washington, D. C. to deliver priceless antique kimonos
to a museum. She is also to deliver several lectures on the
kimonos. At the eleventh
hour, a beautiful wedding kimono is substituted for one
of the garments which is deemed too delicate to travel.
To save money on the ticket, Rei flies with a charter group
of Japanese ladies who are on a mission to shop.
When the museum refuses to take the wedding kimono because
it is uninsured, Rei is stuck with it. The kimono is stolen,
and one of the women from the trip turns up dead in a dumpster with
Rei's passport. Things get worse from there: the D.C. police seem
convinced Rei is a prostitute after she is filmed reenacting
that infamous
scene from Risky Business on a train with former Scottish
boyfriend, Hugh Glendinning, then her parents and her
current Japanese boyfriend blow into town. Rei must find the
missing kimono, save her career, and try to salvage her
rapidly-detonating love life.
In this fifth entry in the popular mystery series, Rei gets a change of location as she heads back to the United States for her latest adventure. Rei is one of those people that could head down to the corner store for some sushi and become involved in anything from murder to mayhem. The Bride's Kimono is hip, it's sexy, it's fun, and it has some fascinating details about antique kimonos; this is a wonderful series that just keeps getting better and better.
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This review was published in the September, 2001 of The Internet Writing Journal.
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