Order of Naomi Hirahara Books

Naomi Hirahara is an American author known for creating the Edgar Award-winning Mas Arai Mystery Series and the Officer Ellie Rush Series. She established a strong reputation as a non-fiction writer before transitioning to fiction. Born in Pasadena, California, to Japanese parents, her father was born in California but moved to Japan as a child and lived in Hiroshima. He was close to the atomic bomb's blast but survived and returned to California with his wife, May. Naomi grew up in California and earned her bachelor's degree in international relations from Stanford University, also studying at the Inter-University Center for Advanced Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. She worked as a reporter for The Rafu Shimpo and as a professor before dedicating herself to writing.