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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1999
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Water City Trilogy

1 - Midnight, Water City (Jan-2021)
2 - Eventide, Water City (Jul-2023)
3 - Sunset, Water City (Dec-2023)

Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He's tough looking, a hard case, observes his cellmate Cal-the mute tattoo artist of the prison, a wife murderer. SYN, a gang symbol, is tattooed on his hand, and he has a Japanese emblem...



  • A woman with a turbulent past fights for her family’s future, in a saga spanning from the Korean War to modern-day Hawaii.   By age fourteen, Park Soong Nan was on her own -- fleeing the communists, a waif living in the streets of Seoul, beggi...



  • From the author of best-selling The Tattoo and Queen of Tears, Bolohead Row is the story of a Honolulu family surviving the only way they know how, through the numbing affects of various addictions; alcohol, drugs â€" or computer games. Chris McKinne...



  • Secretly, a man welds steel to a bulldozer. Later, another watches a ghost walk along his dry-walled hallways. A woman raises her teenage son in a homeless encampment where the boy has to fight to survive with the help of a strange, lonely cop.



  • After social services rescues three abused children Shane, Boi, and Glory from a junked city bus, a state senator and his beauty queen wife adopt one, a taro farmer and a hula dancer take in another, and the only girl ends up back in the clutches of ...



  • McKinney s seventh novel once again takes place in Hawaii's underworld of lounge bars, drugs, gambling and crime. In Japan, people believe that there are years in a person s life that are bad luck. For men, the worst is 41. It is yakudoshi. It is the...



  • Hawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her. Year 2142: Earth is ...



  • The sequel to Midnight, Water City follows a detective from the depths of earth's oceans to the moon as he unravels a cosmic conspiracy that threatens to destroy the remnants of human life. Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Wa...



  • In the powerful conclusion to the sci-fi noir Water City trilogy, faith, power, and tech clash when our nameless protagonist passes the responsibility of saving the world to his teenage daughter. For fans of Phillip K. Dick and The Last of Us.Year 21...






  • The Aloha State enters the Akashic Noir Series arena with a riveting collection, exploring shadows and corners of Honolulu that will never be found in a tourist brochureFEATURING BRAND NEW STORIES BY: Don Wallace, Stephanie Han, Christy Passion, ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chris McKinney has published 10 books.

The next book by Chris McKinney, Honolulu Noir, will be published in November 2024.

The first book by Chris McKinney, The Tattoo, was published in July 1999.

Yes. Chris McKinney has 1 series.