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Plot Summary of K.O.'d in Honolulu
"Honolulu Police Officer Katrina Ogden faces revenge and obsession when she receives a series of bizarre emails threatening her. As the head of Records & Identification, she is in charge of moving the computers to the new offices in downtown Honolulu. In a department of 2000 plus employees on the move, her stalker goes unnoticed until he leaves her gifts--corpses bearing an eerie resemblance to K.O. As she traces her stalker, she faces her mortality and her past, taking the reader on a journey through Paradise most tourists never see."
Victoria Heckman, Resident Scholar


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Review Analysis of K.O.'d in Honolulu
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%




Tone of story - Dry-cynical
How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story: - 1980's-1999
What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 90%
Murder of certain profession? - criminals
Kind of investigator - police procedural, American
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted... - hunted by killer/stalker

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 20's-30's
How much violence does he/she use? - a significant amount
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
Motive of antagonist - revenge
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Island? Yes
Island: - Pacific Island
City? Yes

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
How many deaths? - 3-4
Sex Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
Is this an e-book? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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