Free from the author via KDP Select @
Amazon:
Wipeout & Hanging Ten in Paris by Chip Hughes, an omnibus edition of the 2nd novel and apparently a short/novella in his Surfing Detective series starring a Hawaiian PI, the novel originally out from Hawaiian local interest specialty press Island Heritage Publishing in 2007.
Ka Palapala Po'okela - Excellence in Literature - Honoree
Two surfers are lost in separate incidents half way around the world . . .
In WIPEOUT! when a big-wave rider vanishes under a liquid mountain at Waimea Bay on O'ahu and his life-insurance company refuses to pay, Kai Cooke is hired by the surfer's pregnant wife, Summer McDahl, to prove he's dead. Did Corky McDahl expire in the boiling soup or pull off the most daring skip-trace ever? Finding the answer leads the PI on a twisted treasure hunt involving the islands' big-wave riding and drug trafficking scenes, plus the competing claims of Summer and another woman who also claims to be Corky's wife.
In HANGING TEN IN PARIS Kai investigates the apparent suicide of surfer and study-abroad student, Ryan Song, found hanging in his room in Paris. With scant knowledge of French or France, Kai tries to piece together what happened in the City of Light, without ever leaving the islands. He interviews a half dozen students and their professor who had accompanied Ryan abroad and finds that while their stories tally, none sounds like the truth. What are they hiding? Did Ryan really hang himself, or did some dark motive among them cause his death?
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Bloody Mary by self-publishing champion J. A. Konrath aka Jack Kilborn (
SYKM,
Wikipedia), 2nd in his Jack Daniels series of Chicago-set police procedurals, originally out from Disney's Hyperion imprint in 2005.
Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis.
Stir in a psychopath littering the city with body parts. Mix with equal parts humor and suspense, and enjoy Bloody Mary--the second novel in the funny, frightening world of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels.
Join Jack as she struggles to repair her train wreck of a personal life while tracking down and convicting one of the scariest serial killers in recent memory--a killer for whom getting caught is only the beginning...
X-link to the SF/Fantasy megathread for the Gentle Readers who like 22nd century police procedurals:
Free from the small press republisher via KDP Select @ Amazon:
The Doppelgänger Gambit by Lee Killough, a 22nd century police procedural murder mystery originally out from Del Rey in 1979