Midnight, Water City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781641292405)

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 forty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sessho-seki. Akira Kimura, the scientist responsible for eliminating the threat, has reached heights of celebrity approaching deification. But now, Akira feels her safety is under threat, so after years without contact, she reaches out to her former head of security, who has since become a police detective.

When he arrives at her deep-sea home and finds Akira methodically dismembered, this detective will risk everything--his career, his family, even his own life--and delve back into his shared past with Akira to find her killer. With a rich, cinematic voice and burning cynicism, Midnight, Water City is both a thrilling neo-noir procedural and a stunning exploration of research, class, climate change, the cult of personality, and the dark sacrifices we are willing to make in the name of progress.

Author: Chris McKinney
ISBN-10: 1641292407
ISBN-13: 9781641292405
Publisher: Soho Crime
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2021
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.40w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/26/2021
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2021
Booklist 06/01/2021 pg. 43
Foreword 06/26/2021

About the Author
Chris McKinney was born and raised in Hawai'i, on the island of O'ahu. He has written six novels, including The Tattoo and The Queen of Tears, a coauthored memoir, and the screenplays for two feature films and two short films. He is the winner of the Elliot Cades Award and seven Ka Palapala Po'okela Awards and has been appointed Visiting Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.