Murder Frames the Scene: A Hawai'i Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780824855291)

Author and playwright Victoria Kneubuhl returns with another thoroughly entertaining, yet complex, whodunit set in 1930s Hawai i featuring the lead characters from Murder Casts a Shadow and Murder Leaves Its Mark. The pair of unlikely sleuths--part-Hawaiian Mina Beckwith and her fianc , part-Samoan Ned Manusia--find themselves unraveling a deadly web of espionage and murder. As the story opens, Ned is in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, where he has been sent to rescue his friend Nigel, a British spy being ruthlessly hunted by the Japanese police. The action moves to Honolulu where Mina is embroiled with a group of eccentric artists whose numbers are being depleted in a series of dramatically staged murders. While Mina looks into the murders of the artists, Ned and Nigel attempt to ferret out a spy sending reports on the activities of the Navy at Pearl Harbor to the Japanese government. The two plot lines become intertwined as Ned and Mina are enmeshed in a dangerous net of international intrigue.

Like the previous novels, Murder Frames the Scene offers readers a fascinating glimpse into prewar Hawai i, full of colorful local characters, descriptions of familiar places in another era, and a vivid sense of the islands as much more than beaches and palm trees.

A Latitude 20 book

Author: Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
ISBN-10: 0824855299
ISBN-13: 9780824855291
Publisher: Latitude 20
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2016
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2016