Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, but grew up in the United States and currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She's a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and was a reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun before becoming a novelist specializing in mystery and historical fiction set in Asia.

Sujata's Rei Shimura mystery series began in 1997 with The Salaryman's Wife, winner of the Agatha Award for best first mystery. Other books in this series set in modern Japan are published in 15 countries. Other Rei Shimura books have won the Macavity award and been finalists for the Anthony, Edgar and Mary Higgins Clark prizes.

USA Today has called Sujata Massey a "gifted storyteller" and Booklist has described her work as a "captivating experience." The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel adds: "Massey builds the bridge between mystery fiction and mainstream women's fiction... a lively, intuitive view of contrasting societies and a young woman trying to find her place in the world."

The Kizuna Coast, to be published in February, 2015, continues Rei's adventures with a mystery set in Tohoku, Japan, after the 2011 tsunami. 

"The Kizuna Coast is Sujata Massey's most moving novel in the Rei Shimura series so far...readers get an authentic look at what it was like for survivors and rescue workers days after the devastating disaster. Bravo to Massey's clear-eyed recounting of a recovery that is still ongoing."--Naomi Hirahara, Edgar-winning author of Snakeskin Shamisen and Murder on Bamboo Lane.

USA Today called Sujata Massey a "gifted storyteller." The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel said: "Massey builds the bridge between mystery fiction and mainstream women's fiction... a lively, intuitive view of contrasting societies and a young woman trying to find her place in the world."