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For a Song by Morales, Rodney is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Set in Honolulu during the late spring of 2007, Rodney Morales's For a Song melds actual events into an edgy detective novel that evokes contemporary Hawai`i as a place where the hauntingly beautiful and the hauntingly tragic too often intersect. Against a backdrop of political scandal and police corruption, the richly complex plot is driven by true-to-life characters and crisp dialogue.David "Kawika" Apana is a reporter turned private detective who has hit rock bottom. Divorced and broke, his career is revived when he hits it big in a game of high stakes poker and trades in his winnings for a boat, which becomes his new home and office. His first client is a vivacious middle-aged blonde, Minerva Alter, who hires him to find her missing daughter, Caroline "Kay" Johnson, an activist and budding filmmaker. Apana is startled to learn that Minerva was once married to Lino Johnson, a petty criminal brazenly gunned down in Honolulu's Chinatown eighteen years earlier--an unsolved murder he had covered during his reporter days.In his investigation, Apana encounters a curious mix of cops, Federal agents, politicians, union officials, ragtag criminals, whistleblowers, stage actors, screen di

Who reads For a Song?

Author

Morales, Rodney

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press; University of Hawai<U+00ca><U+00bb>i Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824858834

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14