The Typhoon Lover

by Sujata Massey

2005

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Series

Rei Shimura (8)

Genres

Mystery

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

HarperCollins Publishers

DDC/MDS

813.54

813.54

Description

A young woman with a foothold in two cultures, Rei Shimura has gone wherever fortune and her unruly passions have led her throughout her chaotic twenties. Now, after the streamers for her thirtieth birthday celebration have been taken down, the Japanese-American antiques dealer and part-time sleuth finds herself with an assignment to find and authenticate an ancient Middle Eastern pitcher that disappeared from Iraq's national museum. The piece is believed to be in the hands of a wealthy Japanese collector, whose passion for beauty extends to Rei herself. But when a devastating typhoon hits Tokyo, Rei is trapped with the object of her investigation--and with much much more than the fate of an ancient pitcher at risk.

User reviews

LibraryThing member teaperson

A passable novel. It picked up steam as it went along, but I found it really annoying at the beginning. Not as interesting as one of the earlier novels in the series, which I had read.

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LibraryThing member byroade

The setup: Fashion-obsessed Rei Shimura has just turned thirty and is offered a peculiar job: try to discover whether or not an ex-boyfriend now owns a priceless treasure from Iraq, thought to be stolen in the post-Invasion looting of the National Museum. She's sent to Japan on this secret mission

for a nameless federal agency.

Review: While readable overall, Rei comes across as immature and somewhat dumb. She obsesses about shoes and clothes all the time. Massey's writing is uneven, featuring painfully stilted conversations. And the idea that turning thirty means entering the "winter" of one's life is pretty ludicrous.

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LibraryThing member TadAD

I can't put my finger on why, but this wasn't as much fun as the earlier books in the series.

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