Nominated for the Edgar Award
A CrimeReads Best Book of 2018
A KCET Notable Book of 2018
LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend's
ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become
embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the
same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy's
death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth,
who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see
justice served.