Chip Hughes: 9 books

THE MAKING OF MURDER ON MOLOKA‘I comprises sixty-plus pages of previously unpublished excerpts from the classic Hawaiian mystery, including descriptions by the author as to how each excerpt fit into the longer and fuller novel he originally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

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 Moloka‘i – the first fatal incident on the soaring...

“Delivering babies is not in my standard contract,” says Kai Cooke to his very pregnant client, Summer McDahl.  Summer has hired the Surfing Detective with an unusual request:  to prove her husband is dead.  Corky McDahl wiped out on Christmas Eve in heavy surf at Waimea Bay and vanished. ...

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 qualms, Kai would seem a natural for the case,...

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 his second employee to die mysteriously in Pele’s...

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 client Dr. Gordon Grimes. When those alibis raise questions...

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 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 through Paris neighborhoods, guided by an old flame...

Welcome to the Surfing Detective Series.  Here are selections from six Surfing Detective mysteries*.* These include the complete sketch of Kai Cooke’s first case, “The Deadbeat Dad,” and also excerpts from Murder on Moloka‘i, Wipeout!, Kula, Murder at Volcano House, and Hanging Ten in Paris....