Chris McKinney

The Water City Trilogy

1 - Midnight, Water City (Jan-2021)
2 - Eventide, Water City (Jul-2023)
3 - Sunset, Water City (Dec-2023)

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  The Tattoo
  

  • Jul-1999
  • / Suspense
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  Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He's tough looking, a hard case, observes his cellmate Cal-the mute tattoo artist of the prison, a wife murderer. SYN, a gang symbol, is tattooed on his hand, and he has a Japanese emblem...

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  Queen of Tears
  

  • Jul-2003
  • / General Fiction
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  By age fourteen she was on her own, fleeing the communists, a waif living in the streets of Seoul, begging from American soldiers and stealing food. Then fate intervened: She was hit by a car driven by a prominent filmmaker. He mentored her into an a...

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  Bolohead Row
  

  • Jun-2005
  • / General Fiction
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  From the author of best-selling The Tattoo and Queen of Tears, Bolohead Row is the story of a Honolulu family surviving the only way they know how, through the numbing affects of various addictions; alcohol, drugs â€" or computer games. Chris McKinne...

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  Mililani Mauka
  

  • May-2009
  • / General Fiction
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  Secretly, a man welds steel to a bulldozer. Later, another watches a ghost walk along his dry-walled hallways. A woman raises her teenage son in a homeless encampment where the boy has to fight to survive with the help of a strange, lonely cop.
  

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  Boi No Good
  

  • Nov-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  After social services rescues three abused children Shane, Boi, and Glory from a junked city bus, a state senator and his beauty queen wife adopt one, a taro farmer and a hula dancer take in another, and the only girl ends up back in the clutches of ...

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  Yakudoshi: Age of Calamity
  

  • Sep-2016
  • / Thriller
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  McKinney s seventh novel once again takes place in Hawaii's underworld of lounge bars, drugs, gambling and crime. In Japan, people believe that there are years in a person s life that are bad luck. For men, the worst is 41. It is yakudoshi. It is the...

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  Midnight, Water City
  

  • Jan-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  The Water City Trilogy - 1
  

  Hawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her. Year 2142: Earth is ...

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  Eventide, Water City
  

  • Jul-2023
  • / Science Fiction
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  The Water City Trilogy - 2
  

  The sequel to Midnight, Water City follows a detective from the depths of earth's oceans to the moon as he unravels a cosmic conspiracy that threatens to destroy the remnants of human life. Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Wa...

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  Sunset, Water City
  

  • Dec-2023
  • / Science Fiction
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  The Water City Trilogy - 3
  

  In the powerful conclusion to the sci-fi noir Water City trilogy, faith, power, and tech clash when our nameless protagonist passes the responsibility of saving the world to his teenage daughter. For fans of Phillip K. Dick and The Last of Us.Year 21...

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  Honolulu Noir
  

  • Nov-2024
  • / Mystery
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  The Aloha State enters the Akashic Noir Series arena with a riveting collection, exploring shadows and corners of Honolulu that will never be found in a tourist brochureFEATURING BRAND NEW STORIES BY: Don Wallace, Stephanie Han, Christy Passion, Morg...

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