Pago Pago Tango is the first in the Jungle Beat mystery series by John Enright. It was a Samsung Book Deal freebie a couple of years ago; sadly I have to admit that it has not yet made it to the top of my ever-shifting TBR list, although looking at it again, I think I want to move it up. In any case, it has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. Per
SYKM, it was a finalist for the 2013 Barry Award for Best Paperback.
link:
http://www.amazon.com/Pago-Tango-Jun...dp/B007VPZOXK/
Spoiler:
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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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