Hanging Ten in Paris: Surfing Detective Mystery Series

By Chip Hughes

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 the case, Kai tries to piece together what happened in Paris, without ever leaving the islands. This means a challenging case. How will the Surfing Detective reconstruct a sequence of events that occurred months earlier and seven thousand miles away?

Kai, as always, rises to the occasion. And, as always, things turn out to be not as they seem. As he interviews a half dozen students and their professor who accompanied Ryan to Paris, Kai discovers that while their stories tally, none sounds like the truth. To get the to truth, he must dig deeper. What went down in Paris ends up astonishing even the detective himself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chip Hughes
• Release date: Aug 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386062530

Chip Hughes

Chip Hughes earned a Ph.D. in English at Indiana University and taught American literature, film, writing, and popular fiction for nearly three decades at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.  His non-fiction publications include two books and numerous essays on John Steinbeck. An active member of the Private Eye Writers of America, Chip launched the Surfing Detective mystery series with Murder on Moloka‘i (2004) and Wipeout! (2007), published by Island Heritage.  The series is now published exclusively by Slate Ridge Press, whose volumes include Kula (2011), Murder at Volcano House (2014), Hanging Ten in Paris Trilogy (2017), and reissues of the first two novels. Chip and his wife split their time between homes in Hawai‘i and upstate New York. 

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