The Flower Master

Rei Shimura is a half-American, half-Japanese antiques dealer who's all sleuth when it comes to crime. At her aunt's bidding, Rei signs up for a course in ikebana, the famous Japanese art of flower arranging. But before she's even finished her first lesson, one of her teachers is brutally murdered. It's up to Rei to catch the killer, even if it means revealing skeletons in her own family's closet. Every rose has a thom in this brilliant novel from one of the mystery world's rising new talents.