Shimura Trouble

Cast of Characters

Rei Shimura-part-time antiques dealer and part-time spy, at a loose end once again

Toshiro Shimura and his wife Catherine-Rei’s parents

Hiroshi Shimura and his son Tsutomu (Tom) Shimura-Hiroshi’s only brother and nephew from Yokohama; Rei’s closest Japanese relatives

Michael Hendricks-a spy who loves Rei but can’t quite come in from the cold

Yoshitsune Shimura-a first-generation American of Japanese ancestry born in Hawaii; the son of Keijin Watanabe Shimura and Harue Shimura, Toshiro and Hiroshi Shimura’s long-lost aunt

Edwin Shimura-Yoshitsune’s son, who is married to Margaret, and father to the teenagers Braden and Courtney

Kainoa Stevens-owner of the Aloha Morning coffee shop

Charisse Delacruz-coffee shop barista

Calvin Morita-Japanese-American psychiatrist

Albert Rivera-land manager and ‘luna’ of Pierce Holdings

Mitsuo Kikuchi and his son Jiro-a Japanese developer and son

Josiah Pierce II-the oldest living member of the Pierce land-owning family

Kurt Schaefer, Parker and Karen Drummond, and Eric and Jody Levine-Michael’s old school friends from the Naval Academy, and their wives

Hugh Glendenning-Rei’s former Scottish lawyer boyfriend