Chip Hughes

A Surfing Detective Mystery

1 - Murder on Moloka'i (Oct-2011)
1.5 - The Making of Murder on Moloka'i (Nov-2011)
2 - Wipeout! (Jan-2001)
3 - Kula (Feb-2011)
4 - Hanging Ten in Paris (Nov-2011)
5 - Murder at Volcano House (Jan-2017)
5.5 - Murder at Makapu'u (Aug-2017)
5.6 - Another Problem in Paris (Aug-2017)
6 - Barking Sands (Nov-2021)

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  Wipeout!
  

  • Jan-2001
  • / Suspense
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  A Surfing Detective Mystery - 2
  

  In this fast-paced sequel to mystery novel "Murder on Molokai," Surfing Detective Kai Cooke works to help a young, very-pregnant Summer McDahl prove that her husband, Corky, is dead. Corky McDahl wiped out on Christmas Eve in gigantic surf at Waimea ...

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  Kula
  

  • Feb-2011
  • / Mystery
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  A Surfing Detective Mystery - 3
  

  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 qu...

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  Murder on Moloka'i
  

  • Oct-2011
  • / Mystery
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  A Surfing Detective Mystery - 1
  

  When Boston heiress Adrienne Ridgely strides into his Honolulu office, Surfing Detective Kai Cooke likes what he sees, but doubts what he hears.  Adrienne’s sister, environmental activist Sara Ridgely-Parke, plunged to her death from a mule on...

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  The Making of Murder on Moloka'i
  

  • Nov-2011
  • / Mystery
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  A Surfing Detective Mystery - 1.5
  

  THE MAKING OF MURDER ON MOLOKA‘I comprises sixty-plus pages of previously unpublished excerpts from the classic Hawaiian mystery, including descriptions by the author as to how each excerpt fit into the longer and fuller novel he originally envisio...

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  Hanging Ten in Paris
  

  • Nov-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  A Surfing Detective Mystery - 4
  

  He doesn’t speak French. He’s never been to Paris. Kai Cooke is an unlikely detective to investigate the hanging death there of a study abroad student from Hawai‘i named Ryan Song. Except, that Ryan was a surfer. With this thin connection to th...

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  Murder at Volcano House
  

  • Jan-2017
  • / Mystery
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  A Surfing Detective Mystery - 5
  

  Kai Cooke comes to the Volcano House for his strangest case yet -- protecting the CEO of a geothermal venture from the wrath of Pele, legendary goddess of volcanoes. Rex Ransom is here in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park to attend the funeral for hi...

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  Another Problem in Paris
  

  • Aug-2017
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Surfing Detective Mystery - 5.6
  

  In ANOTHER PROBLEM IN PARIS when study abroad student Marie Ho fails to return from her semester in Paris Kai Cooke is hired by her estranged stepfather, psychiatrist Gordon Grimes, to fly to Paris and hand her a sealed envelope. The PI tracks her t...

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  Murder at Makapu'u
  

  • Aug-2017
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Surfing Detective Mystery - 5.5
  

  In MURDER AT MAKAPU'U Kai Cooke investigates the fatal sea-cliff plunge of philanthropist Beatrice Ho, whose unattended death looks suspiciously attended. Kai flies to Moloka‘i to check on the alibis of her second husband, the PI’s former clien...

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  Barking Sands
  

  • Nov-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Surfing Detective Mystery - 6
  

  Tracking serial killers isn't Kai Cooke's kuleana-or thing. So when the mother of a rape and murder victim abducted near Barking Sands Beach begs him to find the brute, Kai reluctantly declines. The twenty-year-old case of three slain women is on Kau...

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