Publisher Description
Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua spent seven years in the San Francisco Police Department, where the job was just a job and solving crimes required cool detachment. But back home on American Samoa, life is personal—especially for a cop. Because on a small island where no one is a stranger and secrets are widely known but never discussed, solving crimes requires a certain…finesse.
Here, Apelu must walk the line between two cultures: Samoan versus American, native versus new. And that gulf never yawns wider than when a white family’s home in Pago Pago is burglarized. And what appears to be a simple, open-and-shut case turns out to anything but. As the evidence piles up, Apelu follows a tangled trail between cultures, dead bodies, hidden codes, and a string of lies on his hunt for the ugly truth buried at the heart of paradise.
Set against the steamy backdrop of the Samoan jungle, this thoughtful whodunit introduces a memorable new gumshoe to the ranks of detective fiction.
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About John Enright
John Enright was
born in Buffalo, New York, in 1945. He earned a master’s degree in folklore at UC Berkeley, before devoting the
1970s to the publishing industry in New York, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. In
1981, he left the United States to teach at the American Samoa Community
College and spent the next twenty-six years living on the islands of the South
Pacific. Over the past four decades, his essays, articles, short stories, and
poems have appeared in more than seventy books, anthologies, journals,
periodicals, and online magazines. His collection of poems from Samoa, 14
Degrees South, won the University of the South Pacific Press’ inaugural
International Literature Competition. Today, he and his wife, ceramicist Connie
Payne, live in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
About Phil Gigante
Phil Gigante has narrated more than two hundred audiobooks, earning ten AudioFile Earphones Awards and three of the prestigious Audie Awards for best narration. An actor, director, and producer with over twenty years of experience in theater, film, television, and radio, he is currently the artistic director of Gigantic Productions and Little Giant Children’s Theatre.