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Naomi Hirahara

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in Pasadena, The United States

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Naomi Hirahara is the USA Today-bestselling and award-winning author of multiple mystery series, noir short stories, nonfiction history books and one middle-grade novel. Her Edgar Award-winning Mas Arai series features a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor. Her first historical mystery, CLARK AND DIVISION, which follows a Japanese American family from Manzanar to Chicago in 1944, won a Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2022. Her two other series star a young mixed race female LAPD bicycle cop, Ellie Rush, and a Filipina-Japanese American woman in Kaua'i, Lellani Santiago. She also has written a middle-grade book, 1001 CRANES. In 2025, the history book she co-wrote with Geraldine Knatz, TERMINAL ISLAND: LOST COMMUNITIES ON AMERICA'S EDGE, ...more

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	Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 10,303 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evergreen (Japantown Mystery #2) 3.75 avg rating — 1,559 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer of the Big Bachi (Mas Arai, #1) 3.56 avg rating — 1,166 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder on Bamboo Lane (Ellie Rush #1) 3.73 avg rating — 782 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iced in Paradise (Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1001 Cranes 3.74 avg rating — 632 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gasa-Gasa Girl (Mas Arai, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hiroshima Boy (Mas Arai, #7) 3.99 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snakeskin Shamisen (Mas Arai, #3) 3.80 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grave on Grand Avenue (Ellie Rush #2) 3.80 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Naomi Hirahara

Japantown Mystery (2 books)
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Mas Arai (7 books)
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Ellie Rush (2 books)
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A Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery (2 books)
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“You're a "chibi", and nobody notices you." Halfway good-looking people, according to Ricki, blended into the crowd. They never left any kind of strong impression. They were bland and anonymous. Ugly people, on the other hand, with fleshy noses or thin lips, always attracted attention.”
― Naomi Hirahara, Summer of the Big Bachi

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“He needed to find that hard place inside that would center him like the middle of a compass. Throughout his life, the needle would point in various directions, but he would have to know where he stood.”
― Naomi Hirahara, Snakeskin Shamisen

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“Meetings were for wasting time, created by and for high-tone people to justify their existence.”
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The Big Heat by William P. McGivern

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The Summer of Dead Toys by Toni Hill

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Summer of the Big Bachi by Naomi Hirahara

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message 5: by Stephanie

Nov 17, 2020 11:53AM

Thanks, Naomi!😃📚

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message 4: by Naomi

Jan 11, 2013 10:13AM

Hi, Beth.

We haven't met, but you were one of the mystery authors who inspired me to join Facebook (maybe through Murder Must Advertise). I think that you were one of my first FB friends! Maybe we'll meet each other in person at Left Coast Crime. Forgive me for taking so long to reply via goodreads. Still learning this all.

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message 3: by Naomi

Jan 11, 2013 10:12AM

Trying to be on top of all these social networking sites! I always feel that I'm a bit behind.

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message 2: by Beth

Dec 31, 2012 10:15AM