Review: The Last Tea Bowl Thief

 Here's a find. A twisty mystery set in Japan that moves back and forth among three time periods, all to answer one important question--whole stole a precious antique tea bowl? Who does it belong to? How and why has it changed hands over the years? 

Sound dull? It's anything but. The characters, from a love-sick blind potter, to a teen-age girl trying to survive in the wreckage of post-world war Tokyo, to a modern-day girl trying to save the life of her grandmother, are so fully realized, and the Japan of three different times is so surely captured, and the twist and turns so expertly hidden and sprung, that by the end, you'll be hooked on Jonelle Patrick. I know I am.