Chris McKinney Books in Order

Imprisoned in Hawaii, Ken Hideyoshi asks his silent cellmate for a tattoo and begins recounting his life. His story follows an abusive childhood, friendships and violence through the divisions between the islands' promise and their neglected communities.

Former Korean film star Park Soong Nan visits her three grown children in Hawaii, stirring their rivalries for her attention. Memories of war, poverty and sudden fame reveal the history behind a family still struggling with her influence.

A Honolulu family struggles with addictions ranging from alcohol and drugs to computer games. Their intersecting lives reveal the damage of dependence and the difficulty of finding purpose amid the pressures and disappointments of everyday life in Hawaii.

A family buying into suburban prosperity and another living on a Waianae beach face the consequences of a father's breakdown. Their connected stories expose the distance between Hawaii's promises of happiness and the lives of its struggling residents.

Rescued from an abusive childhood, three siblings grow up in sharply different Hawaiian households. Reunited as adults, they confront the divisions of class, culture and family loyalty that shaped their lives and now threaten to pull them apart.

Rudy Puana recounts his journey from a difficult childhood in Kahaluu to a medical career. Growing up poor, conspicuously red-haired and uncertain of his future, he confronts the academic and personal obstacles between him and becoming a doctor.

Approaching his forty-first birthday after years out of prison, Bruce Blanc learns that the son he has never met is missing. His search draws him through Honolulu's changing criminal world and forces a reckoning with fatherhood and his past.

In 2142, the scientist who saved Earth from an asteroid asks her former security chief for help. Finding her murdered in her underwater home, the detective risks his family and career to investigate their shared past.

Eight years after investigating Akira Kimura's murder, a former detective is raising his daughter while taking occasional bounty work. A threat connected to his past pulls him back into danger, with his family's safety and humanity's future at stake.

After a catastrophe devastates humanity, a former detective and his nineteen-year-old daughter struggle through a transformed world. Ascalon must navigate her father's grief and the forces controlling the survivors while seeking a future beyond their brutal surroundings.