From the award-winning author of the Japantown Mysteries, trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle...

Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it's still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate.

At the behest of her Aunt Cheryl, the highest-ranking Asian-American officer in the LAPD (a source of pride for Ellie's grandmother, but annoyance to her mom), Ellie becomes tangled in the investigation of the coed's murder--with equal parts help and hindrance from her nosy best friend, her over-involved ex-boyfriend, a smoldering detective, and seemingly everyone else in her extended family...only to uncover secrets that a killer may go to any lengths to ensure stay hidden.

Author: Naomi Hirahara
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 04/01/2014
Series: Officer Ellie Rush Mystery #1
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780425264959
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/10/2014
Library Journal 04/01/2014 pg. 72
Romantic Times 04/01/2014 pg. 51 - Excellent

About the Author
Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar(R) Award-winning author of the Mas Arai Mysteries. Born and raised in Pasadena, Naomi received her bachelor's degree in international relations from Stanford University and studied at the Inter-University Center for Advanced Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. She worked as a reporter and editor of The Rafu Shimpo in downtown Los Angeles. She is also the author of 1001 Cranes and has written, edited, and published several nonfiction books, largely about the Japanese American experience. She lives with her husband in Southern California.