While Mark Yeager is vacationing with his wife, Sophie, on Maui, he discovers a pickleball court and a dead body. Detective Puna Pa’a and his sidekick, Akahi Mendoza, consider Mark a suspect in the death of George Tanabe.
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Mark meets three pickleball players, Ted Franklin, Lefty Kalama and Keone Ahuna, and joins a game with them, hoping to learn more about the murder.
Mark works to clear his name but only gets in more trouble with the police. He gets set up on a drug bust and has to hide from the police to avoid being arrested.
Then Sophie is kidnapped, and Mark has two days to figure out who the kidnapper is so he can rescue Sophie. Along the way he gets crosswise with a local crime boss, known as Oana.
Mark must use all his wits to figure out a way to rescue Sophie, solve the murder and stay alive while the police seek him for additional crimes including a second murder.
Rating
These stories may not keep you up at night, but I can guarantee you won’t fall asleep reading them. Edgy, noir, often macabre tales, you can never predict how the tale is going to end, but it usually doesn’t end well. Kilgore deploys an incredible range of hard-luck characters: a hitman planning to retire (The Auckland Assignment); a British file clerk (The Madding Tale) who volunteers for a passage to India (don’t read during bug season); a cat-walking Parisienne woman (The Woman in Paris who Walked Her Cat); a down on his luck actor whose time has run out (Twenty-Ten). On second thought, they might keep you up at night.
Many of the stories have been told before but the author has written them so well it doesn’t matter
