A Mysterious Review of …
Pago Pago Tango by John Enright. An Apelu Soifua, Jungle Beat Mystery.
Review summary: This debut mystery set in American Samoa introduces a down-to-earth, practical police officer investigating a simple burglary that soon becomes much more. The island setting provides a colorful backdrop to the story, which itself is a good balance between plot and character introduction. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Pago Pago Tango
John Enright
An Apelu Soifua, Jungle Beat Mystery
Thomas & Mercer (October 2012)
Publisher synopsis: Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua spent seven years in the San Francisco Police Department, where the job was just a job and solving crimes required cool detachment. But back home on American Samoa, life is personal — especially for a cop. Because on a small island where no one is a stranger and secrets are widely known but never discussed, solving crimes requires a certain … finesse.
Here, Apelu must walk the line between two cultures: Samoan versus American, native versus new. And that gulf never yawns wider than when a white family’s home in Pago Pago is burglarized. And what appears to be a simple, open-and-shut case turns out to anything but. As the evidence piles up, Apelu follows a tangled trail between cultures, dead bodies, hidden codes, and a string of lies on his hunt for the ugly truth buried at the heart of paradise.
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