When her ex-boyfriend, two closest friends, and a handsome detective all become involved in the case, Ellie is pulled in every possible emotional direction, leaving her to trust no one except her Chihuahua-mix Shippo and her 1969 Buick Skylark.Īsked about writing from a female point of view after years of living in the mind of Mas Arai, Naomi Hirahara responds with her usual candor-a balance of the vulnerability and strength of her characters. When the murdered body of Jenny Nguyen, one of her classmates from Pan Pacific West College, is found on Bamboo Lane during the Golden Dragon Parade in Chinatown, Ellie’s life becomes, well, complicated. Her aunt is Assistant Chief Cheryl Toma, the highest-ranking Asian American in the Los Angeles Police Department, a little known fact among her colleagues. Her mother is Japanese American her father is white and both are not particularly crazy about Ellie’s career choice of law enforcement. The protagonist of Murder on Bamboo Lane is Ellie Rush, a new recruit on the Central Division’s Bicycle Coordination Unit.
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