cover image Primitive Secrets

Primitive Secrets

Deborah Turrell Atkinson. Poisoned Pen Press, $24.95 (365pp) ISBN 978-1-59058-017-2

Deborah Turrell Atkinson smoothly blends contemporary crime and native Hawaiian legend in her second novel, Primitive Secrets. When Storm Kayama discovers her beloved adoptive attorney uncle, Miles Hamasaki, dead at his desk, her search for his killer takes her on a journey into her own painful past that illuminates the larger conflicts in the 50th state's diverse culture.