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Authors: Sujata Massey

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SUJATA BANERJEE MASSEY
was born in England to parents from Germany and India. She was raised in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in Northumbria; Philadelphia, PA; and St. Paul, MN. After earning an undergraduate degree in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, stayed on for five years in Baltimore as a features reporter for the Baltimore
Evening Sun
. Sujata began writing mystery fiction during a two-year stint teaching English and rarely seeing her husband, a medical officer connected to US Navy Fleet Activities in Yokosuka, Japan. Her first Rei Shimura mystery,
The Salaryman’s Wife
, won the Agatha award for best traditional mystery. Other books in the ten-novel series have been nominees for the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark awards. The series, published in seventeen countries, is on hold while Sujata completes a historical suspense novel set in late British colonial India. She lives in an old house in Minneapolis with her husband, two children, and a beagle.

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