Aloha, Hawaiian Dick #1

B. Clay Moore and Jacob Wyatt's "Byrd of Paradise" mystery series returns to Image with this 2016 opener, "Jazz Interlude," and Sean Dove's cover sets a moody, sun-soaked tone right away. A hand reaches up from tropical waters scattered with playing cards — kings and queens floating like evidence at a crime scene — while a silhouetted palm-tree island and a crescent moon loom in the cool blue night behind it. It's a quietly unsettling image that promises exactly the kind of sun-drenched noir atmosphere Hawaiian Dick does so well.