A “Meet the Authors” event featuring Naomi Hirahara (“Crown City: A Japantown Mystery”) and Patricia Smiley (“A Cold November Murder: A Justice Bay Mystery”) will be held on Sunday, Aug. 30, at 3 p.m. at Mystery Ink Bookstore, Old World Village, 7561 Center Ave., Huntington Beach.
Kirkus Reviews called Hirahara’s new novel “a fascinating glimpse of turn-of-the century California, with a mystery kicker.”
In this fish-out-of-water mystery, studded with cameos by real historical figures, Edgar Award–winner Hirahara brings to life a little-known slice of California history…