Wipeout! & Hanging Ten in Paris: Two Surfing Detective Mysteries

Two surfers are lost in separate incidents half way around the world . . . In WIPEOUT when a big-wave rider vanishes under a liquid mountain at Waimea Bay on O'ahu and his life-insurance company refuses to pay, Kai Cooke is hired by the surfer's pregnant wife, Summer McDahl, to prove he's dead. Did Corky McDahl expire in the boiling soup or pull off the most daring skip-trace ever? Finding the answer leads the PI on a twisted treasure hunt involving the islands' big-wave riding and drug trafficking scenes, plus the competing claims of Summer and another woman who also claims to be Corky's wife. In HANGING TEN IN PARIS Kai investigates the apparent suicide of surfer and study-abroad student, Ryan Song, found hanging in his room in Paris. With scant knowledge of French or France, Kai tries to piece together what happened in the City of Light, without ever leaving the islands. He interviews a half dozen students and their professor who had accompanied Ryan abroad and finds that while their stories tally, none sounds like the truth. What are they hiding? Did Ryan really hang himself, or did some dark motive among them cause his death?

Author: Chip Hughes
Publisher: Slate Ridge Press
Published: 06/21/2012
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780982944424

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2012 pg. 60

About the Author
Chip Hughes learned to surf in San Diego in the late 1960s. He earned a Ph.D. in English at Indiana University and taught American literature, film, writing, and popular fiction for nearly thirty years at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. His non-fiction publications include two books on John Steinbeck and numerous essays and reviews. An active member of the Private Eye Writers of America, he launched the Surfing Detective mystery series in 2004 with MURDER ON MOLOKA'I. The second book, WIPEOUT!, followed in 2007. The third, KULA, in 2011. Other titles, in various stages of development, are underway. The Surfing Detective series is published exclusively by Slate Ridge Press. More at http: //surfingdetective.com. Hughes lives in Windward O'ahu with his wife and surfs when time allows.

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