Sporting Girl
Real life federal law enforcement officer and award-winning author Scott Kikkawa continues chronicling the career of his fictional 1950s Honolulu Police Department Detective Sergeant Francis “Sheik” Yoshikawa, a World War II veteran of the Japanese American Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Kikkawa introduced his unique protagonist in 2019 in his critically acclaimed debut novel, Kona Winds, followed by murder mysteries Red Dirt and Char Siu.
About the author
Scott Kikkawa writes noir detective stories set in postwar Honolulu. He has been honored with an Elliot Cades Award for Literature and a crime fiction short story of his was selected as one of the “Other Distinguished Stories of 2021” in the 2022 Best American Mysteries and Suspense Anthology. He is a columnist and Associate Editor for The Hawaiʻi Review of Books and resides in Honolulu.
- Author: Scott Kikkawa
- Publisher: Bamboo Ridge Press
- Format: Softcover, 280 pages
- Size: 9 × 6 in
- Published: 2026
- ISBN: 9781943756155
