Game Face: A Ben McMillen Hawaiian Mystery - Hardcover

Brown, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0918024927 ISBN 13: 9780918024923

Publisher: Ox Bow Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Former Kona police detective Ben McMillen unofficially joins the search for a serial killer who murders adulterous women

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Ben McMillen, sometime detective and triathlete-in-training, makes his debut in this lively mystery set in the Polynesian paradise of Hawaii. Ben, the happy proprietor of Swift Benny's, a surf shop on Maui, since leaving the Kona police force two years ago, is summoned back to the Big Island to help solve the rape and murder of his ex-partner's wife. Three more women are killed before the clues fall into place and the identity of the rapist/strangler is revealed in a fiery finale. The backdrop elevates the book a notch, while Hawaiian folklore and bits of Eastern philosophy give the text an exotic flavor. Ben and his cronies, however, fall just short of becoming three-dimensional, never really cementing any genuine relationships with one another, and the murderer's motive is somewhat contrived. But the strengths outweigh the flaws here, and Brown and Ben McMillen are an appealing duo.

Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ox Bow Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0918024927
• ISBN 13: 9780918024923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 297