TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morales,Rodney
TI  - For a Song
SN  - 9780824858827
AV  - PS3563.O7594 F67 2016eb
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Honolulu : 
PB  - University of Hawaii Press, 
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Private investigators
KW  - Hawaii
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; PROLOGUE --; Part One. THE GLINT OF DIAMONDS --; Part Two. FOLLOW ME, FOLLOW YOU --; Part Three. MAELSTROM --; Epilogue. GRAVE CONCERNS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824858858
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824858858
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