Mahu Fire: A Hawai'ian Mystery by Neil S. Plakcy

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Evil moves to paradise, as openly gay police detective Kimo Kanapa'aka battles an extreme religious group that opposes the idea of same-sex marriage. It begins with a simple shooting, but the danger intensifi es as Kimo strives to unmask a killer.

Neil S. Plakcy is the author of Mahu Surfer.

Publishers Weekly

Hawaii's in a "hot wave" during a dry El Niño spring made hotter by protests against same-sex marriage advocated by the gay and lesbian members of Hawaii's Marriage Project in Plakcy's engrossing third Mahu mystery (after 2007's Mahu Surfer). Kimo Kanapa'aka, an openly gay Honolulu detective who's investigating a homeless man's murder, gets distracted after a bomb goes off at a Hawaii Marriage Project fund-raiser. Vice-mayor Wilson Shira, an antigay politician, dies in the explosion, while others are injured, including Kimo. As leads on the homeless man's murder dwindle, Kimo focuses on finding the bomber and even goes undercover with the aspiring cop daughter of his boss, Lieutenant Sampson, to attend a meeting of the antigay Church of Adam and Eve. Kimo's lusty affair with his new fireman boyfriend, Mike Riccardi, softens the edges of this sharp whodunit. Readers should be prepared for explicit gay sex. (May)

Jo Ann Vicarel - Library Journal

Gay Honolulu police detective Kimo Kanapa'aka (Mahu; Mahu Surfer) finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation involving a terrorist attack on the Hawai'i Marriage Project, a group fighting to legalize gay marriage. Add to the mix the arsons against gay-owned businesses and the arrival of an ultraconservative religious group, and the result is an emotionally charged sizzler of a mystery.

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