{"product_id":"kona-winds","title":"Kona Winds","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eScott Kikkawa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoftcover, pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKONA WINDS, the début novel by Japanese-American author Scott Kikkawa, is a hard-boiled noir murder mystery set in Honolulu in 1953, when Hawai‘i was evolving from a racially stratified, near-feudal plantation colony to the multi-ethnic 50th State.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHonolulu 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 pier. His investigation uncovers dark motives tied to a recent dock and sugar strike and a forbidden relationship between the scion of a prominent kamaʻāina haole family and a young woman from a growing immigrant community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHindered by the limitations of race and class and haunted by the specter of his combat experiences in Europe and his resulting dependence on alcohol, Yoshikawa nonetheless resolves to bring the case to a successful conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bamboo Ridge Press","offers":[{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":53196073926976,"sku":"nry1790030059513","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0986\/8535\/4304\/files\/kona-winds_1.jpg?v=1790030065","url":"https:\/\/mountainpeaks.shop\/products\/kona-winds","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}