Detective sidekicks, anyone? For the past few weeks I’ve been preparing, off and on, for a workshop I’m leading this week for the Sisters in Crime chapter in Honolulu.
It’s set for Wednesday, September 15, at Makiki Community Library (1527 Keeaumoku Street, Honolulu). The Sisters in Crime meeting begins at 6:30 p.m., and the workshop at 7:00 p.m. Visitors are welcome.
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Our guest blogger today is mystery/crime fiction writer and Oahu resident Deborah Atkinson.
A recipient of the University of Hawaii’s Meryl Clark Award for Fiction, she is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the author of Primitive Secrets (2002), The Green Room (2005), and Fire Prayer (2007).
Debby’s latest novel is Pleasing the Dead. I asked her to share her thoughts about romance and mystery. Welcome, Debby!
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Bob Hogue’s novel Sands of Lanikai, published by Island Heritage, is hitting the local bookstores this week on Oahu and next week on the neighbor islands. Bob describes the book as “a historical fiction set in Kailua in 1941, with a little romance, mystery, and suspense tossed in for fun.”
I asked Bob to share some of his experience in imagining, and then creating, this novel.
Death on Diamond Head is a riveting murder mystery written by long-time Hawai‘i law enforcement officer John Madinger. The fast-paced novel introduces the character of Honolulu police detective Kimo Rigg, a veteran cop whose career has been sidetracked by a whistleblower lawsuit.
In Death on Diamond Head, Madinger’s first novel, Kimo Rigg has been relegated to the Unsolved Crimes department in the bowels of the precinct headquarters. He is trying to stay out of trouble when he finds himself in hot water once again: A murder victim’s body is dumped almost on the doorstep of his new house at Diamond Head.
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Honolulu Cop is real, but plenty of novelists have decided there’s no better place for a crime than Hawai’i. Here’s a list of mysteries, both old and new, set in our islands. List courtesy of www.LeftCoastCrime.org and Kane’ohe librarian Cindy Chow.
Humble Honest Men is a comic novel from Hawai‘i author-historian Bob Dye. A dozen years in the writing, Dye’s new book tells the story of Kapala Dolan, a Hawai‘i native who moves to Kinsale, Ireland, and soon becomes embroiled in the historical controversy surrounding the sinking of the Lusitania and her mysterious cargo.
Dolan’s fascination with the Irish half of his hapa haole ancestry—and the family lore that placed his maternal grandparents on the Lusitania as it sank off the coast of Kinsale—leads him to jump at the chance to consult for the town whose city fathers seek to make the Lusitania as successful a tourist attraction as Pearl Harbor’s Arizona Memorial. The job proves to be more than a simple consultancy, as Dolan is drawn deeper into intrigue and cultural conflicts, while his sincere intentions rub some of the townspeople the wrong way.
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