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Mahu
Author: Neil S. Plakcy
Series: Mahu Investigations #1
Narrator: Joel Leslie
Unabridged: 11 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Published: 05/22/2023
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Synopsis
A gay police detective investigates the dark corners of sunlit O'ahu
Mahu---a generally negative Hawaiian term for homosexuals---introduces a unique character to detective fiction. Kimo Kanapa'aka is a handsome, mixed-race surfer living in Honolulu, a police detective confronting his homosexuality in an atmosphere of macho bravado within the police force. A man of intelligence, strength, honesty, resourcefulness, and intense dedication to the people of Hawaii, Kimo is a hard-boiled hero you will never forget. Fast-paced, intricately plotted, thoroughly enjoyable, this is a sexy, surprisingly moving mystery about discovering oneself as much as catching a killer.
Kimo Kanapa'aka's world turns upside down in Mahu. At 32, the hero of M?h? has reached the pinnacle of his profession, detective on the Honolulu Police Department's homicide squad, based at the Waik?k? station. But a difficult murder case, as well as turmoil in his personal life, is about to threaten everything he has worked for.
A life-threatening drug bust in chapter 1 makes Kimo realize that it's time to stop lying to himself. He's drawn to the Rod and Reel Club, a gay bar in Waik?k?, where he has a couple of beers and begins the long process of accepting his attraction to other men. Leaving the club, though, he stumbles onto two men dropping a dead body in an alley, and he launches himself into a nightmare where his private life becomes public news.
Kimo's pursuit of this case takes him from the seamy underside of Chinatown to the elegance of million-dollar homes in Maunalani Heights, from gay bars where young men stride naked down runways to bloody crime scenes.
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