Killing Maine (Pono Hawkins, Book 2)

Killing Maine by Mike Bond

Book Review by Dawn Thomas

388 Pages

Publisher: Big City Press

Release Date: December 29, 2019

Mystery, Suspense, Assassination Thriller, Politics, Environmental Issues

This is the second book in the Pono Hawkins series. In this installment, Pono gets a telephone call that Bucky, a member of Special Forces, has been arrested for killing a man. He flies from his home in Hawaii to Maine to help prove Bucky did not commit murder. When he arrives, he meets up with Bucky’s wife, Lexie. Pono was in a relationship with her before she married Bucky. This makes for an awkward situation.

As he begins investigating, he meets Abigail, the murdered man’s wife. He gets close to her to gain her trust and find out more about her husband and what he was up to in the days leading up to his death. Someone does not want Pono to be there and tries to kill him.

The action in the story moves quickly and the characters are developed. There are references in this book to the first one, Saving Paradise. Although this book is a part of a series, you can read it as a stand-alone. I love the history lessons of Elias Hawkins along with the mention of Joshua Chamberlain. I had difficulty believing the information about the wind turbines. Nothing I have researched identified that wind turbines have high decibel levels although there are many bird deaths linked to them.