num_pages: 303
description: Kali Mhoe Hawaiian cultural expert and detective with the Maui Police Department has been called to a bizarre crime scene. In the recesses of a deep trench on Lana'i Island a derelict refrigerator has been unearthed. Entombed inside are the skeletal remains of someone buried decades ago. Identification is a challenge. The body is headless the skull replaced with a chilling adornment: a large ornately carved wooden pineapple. The old field soon yields more long-buried secrets and Kali is led along an increasingly winding path that brings to light an unlikely suspect an illegal cock-fighting organization and a strange symbol connected to a long-disbanded religious cult. Her task is to dispel the dark shadows lingering over the Palawai Basin plains and to solve a puzzle that no one wants exposed by the bright hot tropical light. To discover the answer Kali will be drawn deeper in the mysteries of the island's ancient legends-stories that tell of an enraged rooster god and man-eating monsters. For Kali a detective of sound logic and reason it's not easy to consider the unknown for explanations for what appears to be a series of illogical links in a twisting chain of deadly events. Or safe. Because the dormant pineapple fields of Lana'i have yet to give up their darkest and most terrifying secrets.
language: English
title: The Bone Field
publisher: Kensington Books