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Blood Code
A Mahu Investigation
2025
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280
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Hawaiian secrets meet Silicon Valley ambition When tech entrepreneur Noah Kim is found murdered outside his office in Honolulu, Detective Kimo Kanapa'aka must unravel a complex web of academic rivalries, cultural conflicts, and family secrets. Kim's startup, Kahola.ai, promised to revolutionize medical care for Pacific Islanders through artificial intelligence, but his death exposes the dark side of mixing traditional knowledge with modern technology. As Kimo investigates, his own family life is upended when his partner Mike is injured in a fire investigation. Suddenly juggling full-time parenting of their twelve-year-old twins with his police work, Kimo finds uncomfortable parallels between the case and his own understanding of what makes someone a father. The trail leads him from the tech startup world to fertility clinics, from sacred Hawaiian traditions to the raw wilderness of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. In this fourteenth Mahu Investigation, Kimo must confront questions of identity, family bonds, and the intersection of modern science with indigenous culture. When the truth finally emerges, it challenges everything he thought he knew about fatherhood, biology, and the choices we make to protect those we love.

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Neil S. Plakcy
Neil S. Plakcy
Author · 103 books

I have been a voracious reader all my life, mostly in mystery, romance, and science fiction/fantasy, though a college degree in English did push a lot of literary works into my list of favorites. I began writing seriously in high school after an inspiring assignment with A Separate Peace by John Knowles. But it took getting an MFA in creative writing to kick-start my career. Since then I've written dozens of books, won a couple of treasured awards, and enjoyed the support of readers. I hope you'll visit my website, where you can sign up for my occasional newsletter, and also follow my author page on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/neil.plakcy. I love writing cozy mysteries as well as gay mysteries, M/M romance and gay erotica. My golden retriever mysteries were inspired by my own goldens, Samwise, Brody and Griffin, who continually give me ideas for new books.

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