Naomi Hirahara
Author · 19 books
Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar Award-winning author of multiple mystery series, noir short stories, nonfiction history books and one middle-grade novel. Her Mas Arai series, which features a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes, has been translated into Japanese, French and Korean. Her two other series star a young mixed race female LAPD bicycle cop, Ellie Rush, and a Filipina-Japanese American woman in Kauai, Lellani Santiago. Her first historical mystery, CLARK AND DIVISION, will be released by Soho Crime in August 2021. She, her husband and Jack Russell dog live happily in her birthplace of Pasadena, California.
Series
Books
Sayonara Slam
2016
Life after Manzanar
2018
Los Angeles Noir 2
The Classics
2010
An Eternal Lei
2022
Murder on Bamboo Lane
2014
1001 Cranes
2008
We Are Here
30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States
2022
Clark and Division
2021
Grave on Grand Avenue
2015
Hiroshima Boy
2018
Strawberry Yellow
2013
Summer of the Big Bachi
2004
Gasa-Gasa Girl
2005
The Twisted Women's Book Club
2025
Iced in Paradise
A Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery
2019
Evergreen
2023
Blood Hina
A Mas Arai Mystery
2010
Snakeskin Shamisen
2006
In League with Sherlock Holmes
2020
