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For a Song - Couverture souple

Morales, Rodney

 
9780824858827: For a Song
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0824858824 ISBN 13 : 9780824858827
Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 2016

Synopsis

Set in Honolulu during the late spring of 2007, Rodney Morales's For a Song melds actual events into an edgy detective novel that evokes contemporary Hawai`i as a place where the hauntingly beautiful and the hauntingly tragic too often intersect. Against a backdrop of political scandal and police corruption, the richly complex plot is driven by true-to-life characters and crisp dialogue.

David "Kawika" Apana is a reporter turned private detective who has hit rock bottom. Divorced and broke, his career is revived when he hits it big in a game of high stakes poker and trades in his winnings for a boat, which becomes his new home and office. His first client is a vivacious middle-aged blonde, Minerva Alter, who hires him to find her missing daughter, Caroline "Kay" Johnson, an activist and budding filmmaker. Apana is startled to learn that Minerva was once married to Lino Johnson, a petty criminal brazenly gunned down in Honolulu's Chinatown eighteen years earlier--an unsolved murder he had covered during his reporter days.

In his investigation, Apana encounters a curious mix of cops, Federal agents, politicians, union officials, ragtag criminals, whistleblowers, stage actors, screen directors, triathletes, as well as Kay's also-missing boyfriend, lawyer turned lifeguard Matthew Serrano. Apana's pursuit of leads takes him all over O`ahu: from the metro downtown area, to the Windward and Leeward coasts, to the fabled North Shore, and to places far beyond. It also takes him back in years as he revisits the Lino Johnson murder and discovers how much he had missed the first time around.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rodney Morales is a creative writing professor at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. He is the author of When the Shark Bites and The Speed of Darkness, and also edited Ho`i Ho`i Hou: A Tribute to George Helm and Kimo Mitchell.

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Éditeur
University of Hawai'i Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0824858824
ISBN 13 
9780824858827
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
416
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Personne responsable
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