Surfing Detective Sampler (Surfing Detective Mystery Series)

Welcome to the Surfing Detective Series. Here are selections from six Surfing Detective mysteries. These include the complete sketch of Kai Cooke's first case, "The Deadbeat Dad," and also excerpts from Murder on Moloka'i, Wipeout!, Kula, Murder at Volcano House, and Hanging Ten in Paris. Together these six selections give readers an overview of the series and offer enough of each book to introduce the main characters, the case, and Kai's approaching to solving it. Surfing Detective Sampler, in other words, provides a tasting menu of sorts-a way to try each mystery without expanding the waistline or breaking the bank. Bon appetite!

Chip Hughes earned a Ph.D. in English at Indiana University and taught American literature, film, writing, and popular fiction for nearly three decades at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. His non-fiction publications include two books and numerous essays on John Steinbeck.
An active member of the Private Eye Writers of America, Chip launched the Surfing Detective mystery series with Murder on Moloka'i (2004) and Wipeout! (2007), published by Island Heritage. The series is now published exclusively by Slate Ridge Press, whose volumes include Kula (2011), Murder at Volcano House (2014), Hanging Ten in Paris Trilogy (2017), and reissues of the first two novels.
Chip and his wife split their time between homes in Hawai'i and upstate New York.