What are the challenges of writing two series at once? But I’m giving myself time to get them just right. I plan on writing two more Mas Arai mysteries - one set in Dodger Stadium and the other in Hiroshima. I’ve even had to move him to places like New York City and Watsonville, but dead bodies always seem to find him. But it is a challenge to place an amateur sleuth, especially one like Mas, in the presence of murder on a regular basis. Does this mean you’re tiring of Mas Arai? “Murder on Bamboo Lane” is the first novel in a new series. in her fiction and the flexibility of mysteries as a form. Recently, we corresponded, via email, about her latest novel, the role of L.A. Hirahara was born in Pasadena and worked as a writer and editor at the Rafu Shimpo before starting to write nonfiction books in the late 1990s.
The niece of a high-ranking LAPD officer, she is caught up in a number of tensions and contradictions involving her loyalty to family, friends and to herself. Young and resolutely urban, she represents Los Angeles as it is, rather than as it was.
But if Mas is a throwback to a different California - reticent, aging, with roots in the state’s tortured racial history - Ellie is a detective of a different sort. For the last decade, Hirahara has written mysteries about Mas Arai, a Japanese American gardener based in Southern California she won an Edgar for “Snakeskin Shanisen,” which came out in 2007. Naomi Hirahara’s seventh novel, “Murder on Bamboo Lane” (Berkley: 304 pp, $7.99 paper), is something of a departure: the kick-off of a mystery series featuring rookie bicycle cop Ellie Rush.
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