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American Samoa is a place I am highly unlikely to ever get a chance to visit, so I'll probably have to settle for armchair tourism, and this debut mystery is my first visit. The book is the first of what looks to be a projected series featuring Detective Sergeant Apelu, a Samoan who spent his childhood on the island and much of his adulthood in the US. This included seven years with the San Francisco Police Department, which he was able to parlay into a job back in Samoa when he needed to come c
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This book was part of a reading challenge with my sister to read a book from every country in the world. After reading several ponderous, navel-gazing books from native authors, we gave up on translations and went for this one, by an American, about American Samoa. For those who are interested in visiting other cultures through books, this book will satisfy. A light mystery revolving around a police officer who has returned to Samoa after teenage years and the beginning of a career in San Franci
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This is a good mystery set in Samoa, featuring a likeable policeman named Apelu. In addition to the mystery of who is killing people and why, this book is a good look at a culture that many of us know little or nothing about, so I appreciate learning about that as well as experiencing the mystery.
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