About

Chris McKinney is a Korean, Japanese, Scottish American writer born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the author of the Water City trilogy. Book one was named a Best Mystery of 2021 by Publisher's Weekly and a Best Speculative Mystery of 2021 by CrimeReads. Book three, Sunset, Water City will be released December 2023.

He has written six other novels: The Tattoo, The Queen of Tears, Bolohead Row, Mililani Mauka, Boi No Good, and Yakudoshi: Age of Calamity.

In 2011, Chris was appointed Visiting Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Over the years, he has won one Elliot Cades Award and seven Kapalapala Pookela Awards.

Chris currently resides in Honolulu with his wife and two daughters.

Other Works

  • Sunset, Water City

    2023
  • Midnight, Water City

    2021
  • Yakudoshi: Age of Calamity

    2016
  • The Red-Headed Hawaiian

    2014
  • Boi No Good

    2012
  • Mililani Mauka

    2009
  • The Queen of Tears

    2007
  • Bolohead Row

    2005
  • The Tattoo

    2000