Red Dirt
A charred, dismembered body in a remote sugarcane field pulls Detective Frank Yoshikawa into a case charged with double-crosses and dead ends.
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Following on the heels of his critically acclaimed début 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 World War 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 the discovery of a burned and dismembered body found in a sugarcane field. Investigating the victim’s life to see who would
have wanted him dead leads to a local communist study group that’s being hunted down by the federal government. A compelling mystery with a breathtaking, unexpected ending.
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ISBN-13 | 978-1-943756-06-3 |
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Number of Pages | 264 |
Weight | 14 oz |
Dimensions | 9.2 × 6.2 × 0.8 in |
A product of Hawai’i Kai in East Honolulu, Scott Kikkawa writes noir detective stories set in postwar Hawai’i, featuring 442nd veteran Nisei Detective Sergeant Francis “Sheik” Yoshikawa. His critically acclaimed debut murder mystery, Kona Winds (Bamboo Ridge Press), was released at the end of 2019. Red Dirt, his second full-length novel, was published two years later. Both were featured in HONOLULU Magazine’s list of “Essential Hawai’i Books You Should Read.” His third novel Char Siu came out in 2023.
Winner of an Elliot Cades Award for Literature and honored with a selection for one of the “Other Distinguished Stories of 2021” in the 2022 Best American Mystery and Suspense anthology, the New York University alumnus is currently a federal law enforcement officer and lives with his family in Honolulu. He serves as a columnist and an Associate Editor for The Hawai’i Review of Books. For more of his writing, follow his Substack, Honolulu Blotter.