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Last year, award-winning author Naomi Hirahara was set to visit the Sutter County Library, but after contracting COVID-19 she was forced to cancel the appearance.

Naomi Hirahara Chaucer's Books will host Edgar Award-winning author Naomi Hirahara for a book talk and signing of her novel "Evergreen,” 6 p.m. Wednesday,

It’s been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California --- but nothing is as they left it. Aki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries. When she seeks out his son, she is shocked to recognize her husband’s best friend, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse?Only a few days later, Little Tokyo is rocked by a murder at the...

Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories.

In Naomi Hirahara's mystery novel, a Japanese American family interned during the war returns home to a changed city. They're still settling in when their daughter is caught up in a murder.