I love stories set in Los Angeles, and especially in the San Gabriel Valley.
Pasadena novelist wins the Edgar Award
PASADENA – The atomic bomb was detonated above Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. In local author Naomi Hirahara’s novels, its effects still course through the contemporary world of the West San Gabriel Valley. Set more or less in the present, Hirahara’s Mas Arai mystery series looks to the past for answers.
“I do think there’s a continuum in terms of history and today,” Hirahara said. Her writings explore “how history reverberates and echoes.” Hirahara recently won the most prestigious mystery-writing prize – the Edgar Allen Poe award, known as an Edgar – for Best Paperback Original for her third and latest Mas Arai installation, “Snakeskin Shamisen.”
Also, you can read an excerpt from her book Snakeskin Shamisen on her site.
