Kona Winds Melanesia Diligently trained in warrior arts

Diligently trained in warrior arts

hardcover   |   603 pages   |   7

Ideal for Beginning Readers

and brings to light the racial

excerpts and brief biographical sketches

Kona Winds Melanesia Diligently trained in warrior artsKONA 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