Adultery, Theft, and Murder, Oh My (260 words)

I went back to my office. Some woman was waiting. I was anxious to get to the bottom of Kama and Eugene’s … More

The Body ID’d (200 words)

I gotta say, having looked at a thousand and one or more of these kinds of photos, that the guy … More

This is the kind of thing we did. Routine kinda stuff. Safe. Usually. I was working a suspicious spouse case myself. Guys cheat on … More

Chan had a witness. It looked to the witness like the victim had been swimming and a woman had saved him … More

I explained to Chan how Eugene Kanai called a few hours ago, said he wanted to tell me something he … More

Well, at least Kama had avoided dealing with cops for the rest of his life. I was the one who lived, … More

When HPD showed, I wasn’t surprised that Lieutenant David Chan, my old brother-in-arms, walked in. Me and him and Kama’d all … More

Eugene Kanai, my old high-school classmate, had wanted to stop by the office to talk. It’d been twenty-five years since we’d … More

I came this close. That “in the very next breath” thing. It took all he had to gesture, get me on my … More

I struggled more with writing up this case than I did the last. Because I myself wasn’t part of the case, … More

When the call from Shanghai came, Chan’s adrenaline rush quickly died. “There was no tall woman in a mu‘umu‘u on … More

A man the right height approached, a baseball cap pulled down over his dark glasses. He carried a black case maybe … More

Chan asked what was up. “It’s a body. They found it out back,” said officer Williams. Chan’s pulse quickened as the … More

“That bastard is playing pool next door,” said Chan to the other three 49ers. “This is what we need to do.” … More

The crowd closed back around the table. Chan saw it had thinned, many not wanting to be near him in the … More

A man standing in front of Chan, turned to face him. “Oh wow,” the man said, “look who’s here. If it … More

It had always seemed ironic to Chan that the most mobbed-up pool hall in Honolulu sat a stone’s throw away … More

On the way to the Moana, Stillman filled Chan in on the young woman found on the beach. She’d been raped … More

Chan asked, “So when did Wo Fat and his four friends fly back to Shanghai?” “Oh,” said Kelly, “only the … More

Chan said simply that there were unanswered questions, but on the way to the station, he could see everything that … More