The Bone Field

Dark Paradise Mystery Series, Book 2

By: Debra Bokur

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Kali Māhoe, Hawaiian cultural expert and detective with the Maui Police Department, has been called to a bizarre crime scene. In the recesses of a deep trench on Lana'i Island, a derelict refrigerator has been unearthed. Entombed inside are the skeletal remains of someone buried decades ago. Identification is a challenge. The body is headless, the skull replaced with a chilling adornment: a large, ornately carved wooden pineapple.

The old field soon yields more long-buried secrets, and Kali is led along an increasingly winding path that brings to light an unlikely suspect, an illegal cock-fighting organization, and a strange symbol connected to a long-disbanded religious cult. Her task is to dispel the dark shadows lingering over the Palawai Basin plains, and to solve a puzzle that no one wants exposed by the bright, hot tropical light.

To discover the answer, Kali will be drawn deeper in the mysteries of the island's ancient legends - stories that tell of an enraged rooster god and man-eating monsters. For Kali, a detective of sound logic and reason, it's not easy to consider the unknown for explanations for what appears to be a series of illogical links in a twisting chain of deadly events. Or safe. Because the dormant pineapple fields of Lana'i have yet to give up their darkest and most terrifying secrets.

©2021 Debra A. Bokur-Rawsthorne (P)2021 Tantor

Police procedural set in Hawaii

The second book in what I hope will be an ongoing series.
Hawaii is the main character, described not as the Disney paradise tourist brochures advertise but, as the complicated location where cultures met, clashed, and moved on. The point of view is that of a female police detective, so homicide fuels the plot.
Well written and very well narrated.

Awesome Book

Very well written. Author kept the story very interesting throughout the book. Love all of the books so far.

Another great book in the series!

This book is a connection to the real Hawaii. Reading this novel is like taking a trip to the Islands. Great story and I learned a lot about Hawaiian culture and history. Highly recommended.

No pono

like the start of this story found it pretty interesting. still very little pigeon there seemed to be more than necessary sarcasm for Christians oh, of course the so-called Christians in this book are crap crazy , but there seems to be an awful lot of unnecessary comments like you know the people that have doves on their cars so they can show us how good they are, type comments oh and Sky Gods things like that which I found very strange since we're always hearing about old Hawaiian belief systems most that were introduced by the Polynesians not the the Pono of the ancients. Again in this book the ending is unnecessarily risky and violent after taking a beating she always seems to be okay anybody's who has ever had a split lip you know how much it hurts and you can't even talk she seems to have no problem with that and other injuries. I'd like to know what took the neighbors so long to get in the door also.

Dull for a mystery, the pace drags.

The book was dull and the plodding pace made it worse.. The narrator was terrible. the dialog was stilted.