num_pages: 352
description: Foreword INDIES 2021 Bronze Winner for MysteryJourney deep into the exotic locales of Hawaii's Big Island to discover its language cultureand crimeOn Hawaii Island an anonymous 911 caller reports a body at Pohakuloa the Army's live-fire training area. Hilo Chief Detective Koa Kane a cop with his own secret criminal past finds a mutilated corpsebearing all the hallmarks of ancient ritual sacrifice.He encounters a host of obstacles as he pursues the murdereran incompetent local medical examiner hostility from both haoles (Westerners) and sovereignty advocates and a myriad of lies. Koa races to discover whether the victim stumbled upon a gang of high-tech archaeological thieves or learned a secret so shocking it cost him his life and put others in mortal danger.Will Hilo's most respected detective stop this sadistic fiendor will the Pohakuloa killer strike again with even deadlier consequences?Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and James Lee BurkeWhile all of the novels in the Koa Kane Hawaiian Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order the publication sequence is:Death of a MessengerOff the GridFire and VengeanceTreachery Times TwoRetribution
language: English
title: Death of a Messenger
publisher: Oceanview Publishing