Koa continues to speak with both the military as well as other locals who are up on Hawaiian ritual killing. He writes it off as a ritual killing and says he will get back to Koa with any other findings.
Shizuo is in no rush to work on the case even though the body was found on military land and they want answers.
experience, he is also a very abrasive personality who does not care for either the military that occupies the island. In addition to Shizuo’s lack of practical M.E. In this case, there is no true medical examiner and Koa must rely on the aid of a 75-year-old Japanese obstetrician named Shizuo. One of the stark limitations of policing on a small island is the lack of quality medical assistance. Koa admits that the remains are worse than anything he has previously witnessed-and he has not only been a police Detective but also a military veteran. Death of a Messenger is the third novel in this series and both the exotic locale and native rituals make it a unique and interesting read.Īs the story begins, a badly brutalized and unidentified corpse is found inside a funnel tube left by a currently dormant volcano. It is this fact that author Robert McCaw uses to his advantage with his Koa Kane Hawaiian Mystery series. Hawaii may be the 50 th State admitted to the U.S.A., but it may as well be another country based on how different the culture is there. In Robert McCaw’s Death of a Messenger, Detective Koa Kane finds a severely mutilated corpse and will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of this gruesome-and perhaps ritualistic-murder.
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