A Halo for Red Betsy (A Frank Keegan Mystery Book 1) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

It’s 1949, the war is long over, the next one is heating up, but after a four-year tour with the Military Police in Occupied Japan U.S. Navy Gunner’s Mate and former San Diego Police detective Frank Keegan has had enough. All he wants is to muster out and get back to California. When his ship stops in at Pearl Harbor, Keegan is looking forward to a little well-earned R&R, with plans to get drunk, chase rich skirts, and hopefully stay out of the brig. Within hours of coming ashore, however, the Honolulu Police pick him up for the murder of Navy Lieutenant Elizabeth "Betsy" Vale. He is cleared quickly, but his former commanding officer, the current commander of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, pulls him out of the frying pan only to pitch him back into the fire by asking Keegan to help clear the charges against the police’s prime suspect, Betsy Vale’s fiancé, Lieutenant-Commander Guy Beaufort. The Honolulu cops are certain they have the right man, but the Navy will not give up one of their own quite so easily, so Keegan finds himself in the unfamiliar waters, working for the defense while bucking the local cops, particularly Detective-Sergeant Joseph Takeda (a veteran of the famed 442nd regimental combat unit), as he searches Oahu for the actual killer or killers. To make matters worse, he find himself in the middle of a bitter dock strike, caught between a union organizer (and possible Communist agitator) and a Red-obsessed Federal agent. Also getting in his way are a couple of goons chasing $10,000 they suspect Keegan of having, an unreliable former friend, a Chinese gambling boss, a loose boozy officer's wife, a morphine-addicted former Navy nurse (and friend of the deceased), and a foul-mouthed young hooker. He may even have to buck his own commanding officer to solve the case and ensure that justice is served. When he first arrived in Hawaii, his plans had been clear; by the time the week is out, there’s been so much blood under the bridge, he is certain about very little.