The salaryman's wife - Sujata Massey

Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods.

She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket.

Her independence is shaken, however, when a getaway to an ancient castle town is marred by the murder of the beautiful wife of a high-powered businessman.

Rei suspects the police aren't looking in the right places, so she does.

And she manages to piece together a strange, ever-changing puzzle--one that is built on lies and held together by years of sex and deception.

Winner of the Agatha Award.

Sujata Massey blasts her way into fiction with The Salaryman's Wife , a cross-cultural mystery of manners with a decidedly sexy edge.

-- Janet Evanonich Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods.

She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she does.

) She's determined to make it on her own.

Her independence is threatened however, when a.