{"product_id":"murder-leaves-its-mark","title":"Murder Leaves Its Mark by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a weekend of horseback rides and beachcombing at the old Haleiwa Hotel turns deadly, Mina Beckwith and Ned Manusia are on the case. The unlikely pair—she a journalist, he a playwright—find themselves once again on the trail of a killer in 1930s Honolulu, where sugar barons cavort at their beachfront mansions while unrest among the working class grows. Their investigation places them in the midst of hot-headed union organizers and the crème de la crème of Honolulu society as well as the riffraff of the city’s backstreets. Familiar characters from Ned and Mina’s previous adventure,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurder Casts a Shadow,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereturn to lend a hand in another thoroughly entertaining whodunnit from author and playwright Victoria Kneubuhl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first Mina Beckwith and Ned Manusia mystery: “Agatha-Christie-in-the-tropics. . . . A tightly plotted novel, crackling dialog, and in Mina and Ned, a pair of intelligent and likable sleuths (think Nick and Nora without the alcoholism and veiled disdain).\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurder Casts a Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshows the promising beginnings of what one hopes will become a new series.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Honolulu Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Nalani Kneubuhl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a Hawaiʻi-based playwright and author of Hawaiian, Sāmoan, and Caucasian ancestry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUH Press, 2011\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback, 312 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"UH Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33901392101508,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0378\/1161\/7924\/files\/9780824835453-600x927.jpg?v=1784844562","url":"https:\/\/basically-books-co.myshopify.com\/products\/murder-leaves-its-mark","provider":"Basically Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}