Ua mau ke ea o ka `aina i ka pono.The life of the land is preserved in righteousness.Chip Hughes plunges right into the ongoing crisis facing the Hawaiian islands - tourist development. Kai Cooke, the Surfing Detective, is hired to investigate the death of an activist along the mule trail on Mo...
One of the things that I did before this recent trip to Hawaii was search Amazon for "Hawaii" + "mystery" because I wanted to take along a book that had some Island flavor. I was surprised at the low number of matches -- there was a smattering of Charlie Chan books and a few young reader selecti...
monologue was removed from the first pages of the 1998 draft, the revised first chapter began with the discarded subplot mentioned above. This subplot involves a deadbeat dad named Leonard Souza whose wife has retained the Surfing Detective to collect delinquent child support. Souza has not only ...
I make tracks for Waimea. The highway north of Kailua along the Kohala Coast looks like a bomb went off. From the mountains to the sea, the roadside is charred and empty. It wasn’t a bomb that did this. It was a volcano. Hualālai, the island’s third most active. The lack of rain in this arid regi...