{"id":7496,"date":"2012-04-10T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2012-04-10T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T07:31:11","slug":"the-mystery-hotel-is-joe-races-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-mystery-hotel-is-joe-races-new-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Mystery Hotel&#8217; is Joe Race&#8217;s new novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Local author Joseph \u201cJoe Mango\u201d Race offers yet another engaging novel titled The Mystery Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Race&#8217;s latest 184-page novel tells the story of Johnny Ornelas, a computer mogul who escapes the corporate life to settle down on the beautiful island of Saipan where he buys a luxury hotel and embarks on a new life.<\/p>\n<p>But Ornelas&#8217; newly acquired dream hotel is haunted by ghosts that make noise and bother customers. To make matters worse, Ornelas discovers reports of people who have gone missing from the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>With all the mystery shrouding the hotel, Ornelas falls for a pretty and ambitious Chinese lawyer, Jan Nan, who is more focused on her job than on a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The Mystery Hotel also features Race&#8217;s famous characters, retired Los Angeles Sheriff Tom Parker and his Chamorro warrior best friend Carlos Montana, along with Doberman Zeus, a new and fearless character, taotaomonas, Yakuza, the Chinese Tong, and local bad guys.<\/p>\n<p>Race described The Mystery Hotel as having \u201ca little adventure and travel and plenty of romance fiction based on real live events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Race, who was a policeman for 45 years and served as chief investigator for the CNMI Attorney General&#8217;s Office, told Saipan Tribune via email that his inspiration for his stories \u201ccome from everyday life, especially my law enforcement interactions with people, and of course, a strong love and devotion of island life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Race has already written 11 novels, including a Christmas book, a shrimp cookbook with businessman Anthony Pellegrino, and a children&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p>Race, who is currently working on a story of a young Marine in Vietnam, teaches English at the Northern Marianas College. He lives on Saipan with his wife and three children.<\/p>\n<p>The Mystery Hotel is published by Trafford and costs $14 for paperback copies which can be purchased on Race&#8217;s website, www.josephrace.com. Both paperbacks and e-copies are also available on Amazon (www.amazon.com) and Barnes &amp; Noble (www.barnesandnoble.com).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter Local author Joseph \u201cJoe Mango\u201d Race offers yet another engaging novel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}