Red Dirt

Red DirtScott Kikkawa Softcover, 264 pp. Following on the heels of his critically acclaimed debut noir novel, Kona Winds, Scott Kikkawa resumes his depiction of 1950s Honolulu Police Department Detective Sergeant Francis Sheik Yoshikawa, a Japanese American Nisei veteran of WorldWar II. Handsome, street smart, literate, and haunted by memories of his military service in the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Sheik must solve a murder case that begins with

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Many of the gods have multiple forms and are able to dwell in any of the different regions that combine to form the Hawaiian archipelago

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The timeless figures and events in this story are powerfully brought to life by Vivian Thompson’s forceful text and by Patricia Wozniak’s graceful and lucid drawings

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” people received messages of guidance from the gods

naturalist Kathy Valier describes more than sixty of the most common ferns growing wild in Hawaiʻi

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