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On A Golden Chain by Ruth Benjamin, a Jewish-themed mystery/identity thriller originally out from small publisher CIS in 1991.
Life for the Wilson family living in a small English town was picture perfect. But when her young son receives a toy train as a gift, Dorothy reacts with strange agitation. Soon she is having recurrences of an inexplicable old nightmare involving a terrible train crash. Why does it all seem so real? And why is it always the same? Then the family is suddenly plunged into confusion by the sudden death of Dorothy’s mother who, with her last gasping breath, reveals that Dorothy is not really her child.
Dorothy is stunned. Who is she? Who are her real parents? Are they still alive? How can she ever expect to find them? Unfortunately the only clue to her identity is a small Jewish star on a golden chain . . .and those awful nightmares.
Benjamin also offers a few more self-published things and a backlist literary dark secrets of the past self-discovery thriller and some YA mysteries, if you're interested.
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Kula by Chip Hughes, 3rd in his Surfing Detective series of mysteries starring the eponymous Hawai'ian PI. This is out from one Slate Ridge Press which only seems to publish this author's books, but the 1st-in-series was originally published by Hawaii-local small publisher Island Heritage Press, from which IIRC I've actually read some of their Hawaiian culture books in paper from my local library (well, actually, the not-so-local central library downtown, which is the only one big enough to get in relatively obscure Hawaiian cultural publications), and we've previously received others in the same series free.
Summoned to the Honolulu hilltop mansion of radio pitchman Barry Buckingham, presumably to trace his missing wife, the Surfing Detective is in for the letdown of his career. Kai Cook is hired to track another lost family member. A dog.
Despite his qualms, Kai would seem a natural for the case, since the golden retriever named Kula is a famous surfing dog. Yet the PI knows nothing about finding missing pets. But he does know where to find help—Maile Barnes, an ex-K9 cop and kindred spirit with the keys to unlock the dark underworld of animal theft in the islands.
Then a questionable tip takes Kai to a late-night rendezvous, his tipster winds up dead, and the detective himself becomes a suspect. Can he clear his name and find the murderer before he strikes again? The PI tracks the illusive retriever from O‘ahu to the Big Island to Maui, but the killer is one step ahead—other players linked to the dog’s disappearance keep turning up dead.
Is a ghost from Barry Buckingham’s past behind the murders? Or is Kai’s client just a misunderstood man with a lost pet? To solve this third case in the Surfing Detective series, Kai Cooke must do what he never does—take on a partner. Teaming up with the headstrong K9 cop is his only shot to liberate the famous surfing dog, who is somehow always at the center of this mystery.