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  Soft-boiled sleuth John 'Oluhana Maalaea Spyer is a conflicted "hapa haole" (half white) who is a polynesian at the core, too nice to be in the detective business, but too much of a haole to pay attention when the mercurial fire goddess Madam Pele herself warns him off the Haverhill case.  "Something new under the tropical sun, a Hawaiian regional mystery of the Tony Hillerman type, which serves to explore the unique Hawaiian culture." --MysteryNet.com  Sara Williams and her husband Bill landed on the Island of Maui in their own sailboat some thirty years ago, intent on visiting an old friend. They loved Hawaii so much that they opened a business in Lahaina and stayed for a decade. Sara, a magazine writer and newspaper reporter, became engrossed in the fascinating art, history and culture of Hawaii.  One Big Itch, set in Honolulu during the Aloha Week Festival, is Sara's excuse to talk story about Hawaii through the voice of John Spyer, a soft-hearted sleuth who has been rattling around in her subconscious for decades. When not sojourning in the Hawaiian Islands, the Williamses are usually to be found in their other favorite haunts, the San Juan Islands of Washington State, or in the Florida Gulf Coast city of Fort Myers, the DeLeon of Sara's first novel, The Don Juan Con, which was optioned in Hollywood by producer Robert Evans for Paramount Studios.