Kona Winds Melanesia Ideal for Beginning Readers

Ideal for Beginning Readers

Carreira Ching renders Hawai‘i as few others have

and Hina for kindergarten through second grade

excerpts and brief biographical sketches

Diligently trained in warrior arts

Kona Winds Melanesia Ideal for Beginning ReadersKONA WINDS, the dbut novel by Japanese American author Scott Kikkawa, is a hard boiled noir murder mystery set in Honolulu in 1953, when Hawaii was evolving from a racially stratified, near feudal plantation colony to the multi ethnic 50th State. Honolulu Police Department Detective Sergeant Frankie The Sheik Yoshikawa, a Nisei veteran of World War II, is assigned the case of a young local Japanese woman whose body is found in Honolulu Harbor under a