December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn’t know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor.
This extraordinary novel is so much more than just a gripping crime story―it’s a story of survival against all odds, of love and loss and the human cost of war. Spanning the entirety of World War II, FIVE DECEMBERS is a beautiful, masterful, powerful novel that will live in your memory forever
I bought Five Decembers by James Kestrel purely on the strength of the fabulous cover art.
And wow what a book! A superb historical noir set across Hawaii, Hong Kong and Japan during the Second World War. Our main protagonist is Joe McGrady is a Police Detective who on the eve of Pearl Harbour, gets assigned a murder case that will mean he gets caught up in a war with Japan.
This book is written in a fantastic style, it’s easy to read, easy to follow and throughly enthralling, a sweeping epic that describes distant lands and one man’s journey, that he won’t rest from, in finding a murderer.
I loved Five Decembers, it’s is written in a style that is so descriptive it ran like a movie in my mind whilst reading. The plot and story are a gripping tale, that covers war, loss, love and finding oneself in a magical way, during the harshest of circumstances.
I’ve only recently started to read Historical Crime Fiction, but 8n Five Decembers I found a gripping and unputdownable 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read!
If you like Crime Fiction, Noir and WW2, then Five Decembers is the book for you.
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