The Kizuna Coast, a Rei Shimura Mystery (#11 in an Agatha and Macavity Award-winning series) After a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in 2011, Rei Shimura's beloved mentor, Ishida-san, sends an SOS to the young Japanese-American .antiques dealer Rei immediately takes off from Hawaii to Tohoku. Her search is complicated by the disappearance of Mayumi, a troubled 19-year-old artist from a famous lacquer dynasty. As Rei wades through wreckage, and her husband Michael heads off to Fukushima's nuclear nightmare, the couple is caught in a massive wave of danger they never anticipated.