Girl in a Box - (Severn House Large Print) by Sujata Massey (Paperback)

About the Book

Underemployed Rei Shimura takes on a freelance job with an agency with ties to the CIA. As she goes undercover as a clerk in a large Tokyo department store, Rei also checks out all the latest fashions and uses her store discount to indulge her shopping impulses. But when her cover is blown, Rei is in big trouble and must unmask a ruthless killer.

From the Back Cover

Chronically underemployed Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura has taken a freelance gig with a Washington, D.C., alphabet agency that just might have ties to the CIA. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is to go undercover as a clerk in a big Tokyo department store. It's a risky assignment, but it also gives Rei a store discount that allows her to freely indulge her shopaholic tendencies.

Meanwhile, she's listening in on private conversations, crashing a conference, and fending off the unwanted advances of a couple of the store's executives who seem fascinated by her navel ring. When her cover is blown, Rei is in big trouble. Suddenly she's neck-deep in something very nasty, and it will take all her resourcefulness and unorthodox methods to survive a determined killer.

Review Quotes

"Markedly different and delightful territory. . . . Great fun." - Baltimore Sun
"Massey deftly weaves Japanese culture, romance, and mystey together in this page-turner." - Metro magazine (Twin Cities)