Albert Tucher is the author of the Errol Coutinho/Big Island of Hawaii series of novels, which includes The Place of Refuge, The Hollow Vessel, and The Honorary Jersey Girl. He also writes about prostitute Diana Andrews, who has appeared in almost 100 hard-boiled stories and the novella The Same Mistake Twice. He recently retired from forty years of public librarianship, and spends every possible moment in Hawaii.
