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This is another good mystery set in the Solomon Islands. It features native policeman Ben Kella and a nun, Sister Conchita, who are each trying to solve a mystery. There is a man murdered at the mission and Sister Conchita is trying to discover who was responsible. At the same time, there is vandalism and theft at a logging operation on one of the islands, and subsequent murders, and Ben Kella is trying to solve those crimes. There are many distracting factors to each of them, and it isn't until
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The setting of this book is the Solomon Islsnds in 1960. There are references back to 1943 when a P-T boat landed on one of the islands held by the Japanese. In 1960 an American tourist is murdered in a mission church. One of the nuns in the mission thinks it is because he saw something or knows something and feels compelled to investigate even though she knows better and has benn specifically told not to. Her contact on the police force is Ben Kella who is a native, but educated in Australia so
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Jul 08, 2014
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marked it as to-read
