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The unlikely pair--she a journalist, he a playwright--find themselves once again on the trail of a killer in 1930s Honolulu, where sugar barons cavort at their beachfront mansions while unrest among the working class grows. Their investigation places them in the midst of hot-headed union organizers and the crème de la crème of Honolulu society as well as the riffraff of the city's backstreets. Familiar characters from Ned and Mina's previous adventure, Murder Casts a Shadow, return to lend a hand in another thoroughly entertaining whodunnit from author and playwright Victoria Kneubuhl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Praise for the first Mina Beckwith and Ned Manusia mystery: \"Agatha-Christie-in-the-tropics. . . . A tightly plotted novel, crackling dialog, and in Mina and Ned, a pair of intelligent and likable sleuths (think Nick and Nora without the alcoholism and veiled disdain). Murder Casts a Shadow shows the promising beginnings of what one hopes will become a new series.\" --Honolulu Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ipage.ingramcontent.com\/ipage\/servlet\/ibg.common.titledetail.pd1000?queryString=H4sIAAAAAAAAABXKsQqDQBCE4Vc5prbQdssghBC0SicSDm4D4snK7pmQBN_dtfv-Yf6wBHrFbFzBREBFN-daQLiIzHDbD9TUtSv7euuvHc6zu-369vQKGoamgvvO349oej6mktl72TSxhszxzRamYmGJOmMc9wPZB7WkfAAAAA\u0026amp;R=16360395#contributor_2837429\" data-href=\"#contributor_2837429\" class=\"doContributorSearch\" productlimit=\"INGM\" producttype=\"Book\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKneubuhl, Victoria Nalani\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVictoria Nalani Kneubuhl is a well-known Honolulu playwright and writer. Her work has been performed in Hawai`i and elsewhere in the Pacific, the continental United States, Britain, and Asia. 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The pair of unlikely sleuths--part-Hawaiian Mina Beckwith and her fiancé, part-Samoan Ned Manusia--find themselves unraveling a deadly web of espionage and murder. As the story opens, Ned is in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, where he has been sent to rescue his friend Nigel, a British spy being ruthlessly hunted by the Japanese police. The action moves to Honolulu where Mina is embroiled with a group of eccentric artists whose numbers are being depleted in a series of dramatically staged murders. While Mina looks into the murders of the artists, Ned and Nigel attempt to ferret out a spy sending reports on the activities of the Navy at Pearl Harbor to the Japanese government. 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