Hawaiian Mysteries

When we last saw L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly, she'd recently become engaged, but before the big event Kit convinces her to come to Hawaii for one last girls' weekend.

Gina Lindsey and her team take down a dangerous gang of criminals in Spokane, Washington, and when she travels to Hawaii with a friend, she is surprised to find the same crime syndicate operating on the paradise island of Kauai. What she doesn't know is that she is tackling something too big, too powerful, and too evil for her resources or strength, and to tell her she is beyond her depth only spurs her on to greater effort. She follows the leads, investigates the murders, and interviews the suspects all the while knowing she is in the gun sights of the deadly paid killer, Deadeye. When ...

Welcome to the island of Kaua`i where things under the water could make you rich or get you killed! Lucia Santerez puts her education on hold and returns home to help her brother Nicholás run his new dive shop. When she arrives, he's nowhere to be found. She's told he's run off with his girlfriend without a word to her. Befriended by a vacationing firefighter and twin elderly sisters who run the C'Mon Inn B&B, together they try to unravel the mystery of her brother's disappearance. They soon learn someone doesn't want him found. Aloha Nicholás! But will this be a hello or a goodbye?

The town of Maika'i is gentle and friendly, and Saffron Skye is trying to keep it that way. But that's hard to do when you're in the back of a Buick being kidnapped by a cruel woman and her henpecked husband. Now, Saffron must escape and make it to the secret wedding she's been hired to arrange. A sizeable inheritance hinges on it going off without complication. But when a dead woman washes up on the shore behind the happy couple, Saffron is plunged into a murder investigation.

When Case Lee is contracted to investigate a mysterious company and its secretive billionaire CEO in Hawaii, things quickly go sideways. The CEO, through unknown back channels, unleashes contract killers to eliminate a problem. A problem called Case Lee. Assassins flock. His family is in the crosshairs. Case calls on his former Delta teammates to lend a hand. In the course of protecting his family, one of the killers reveals the source of the bounty. A bounty that has dangled over the heads of Case and his three teammates for years.

Alex Torkelsson has just gotten word: His late uncle Magnus's plane has been found south of Hawaii's Big Island after 10 long years. So too have Magnus' few skeletal remains, now handed over to the only man who can fit together the pieces of this mystery. What forensic detective Gideon Oliver discovers could shake the Torkelsson family tree to its very roots. But this time his work is yielding more questions about the past than answers. Questions about the long-ago execution-style murder of Magnus's brother...about a mysterious will that benefits - as well as incriminates - its heirs.

Even in 1870, The Hawaiian Islands are the most strategic location in the Pacific. Since its discovery in the late 1700's major powers have vied for control of the valuable Port of Honolulu. The Imperial Russian Empire is making a move to invade Oahu and make The Hawaiian Islands a Russian colony. They are backed by a weapon of mass destruction, the Gatling Gun, Just recently back from the Civil War, Dr. William Goode and his family become the only hope fighting to stop the Russian Invasion. From the steppes of the Ukraine, to Venezuela, and across the Pacific members of the ohana gather to...

The world's most prestigious tiki carving championship has come to Maikai'i, the cozy little Hawaiian town where Saffron Skye runs her egg farm and Brightblossom Events. Saffron's friend Mano is participating in the Kahuna Kalai Championships to determine who is the world's best tiki carver. Saffron is in charge of the 10-day event, and from the beginning, she is chipping away at mysteries. First, the tikis are changing. Carvers are complaining that the masks and mugs they carved yesterday don't look the same today. Is it tiki magic or something more sinister?

A scrap of cloth fluttering in the wind leads Hilo police chief detective Koa Kāne to the tortured remains of an unfortunate soul, left to burn in the path of an advancing lava flow. For Koa, it’s the second gruesome homicide of the day, and he soon discovers the murders are linked. These grisly crimes on Hawaii’s Big Island could rewrite history or cost chief detective Koa his career. The dead, a reclusive couple living off the grid, turn out to be mysterious fugitives.

Kevin and Steven are business partners in a coffee farm. They have worked hard to get their Kau coffee beans noticed on the mainland—maybe noticed by the wrong people. When Steven mysteriously disappears, along with a large sum of money, Kevin calls his dad, Charles “Chuck” MacKay. Chuck has been on the east coast working as a forensic accountant for his old friend Bruce Levine, owner of Valor Investigations. After Kevin’s call, Chuck flies to the Big Island of Hawaii to track the money, and Bruce uses his available resources to track Steven. Meanwhile, a hit man is on the Big ...

Small town life, big academic egos, corruption, revenge, and Spam musubis! The Musubi Murder is the first campus crime novel set in Hawaii, and the perfect gift for mystery lovers, Hawaii expatriates, disillusioned academics, and anyone who fancies Spam (the meat). Renowned Hawaii-born voice-over artist Nicole Gose brings her spot-on vocal characterizations and impeccable comic timing to this reading.

A Marine is murdered while surfing ...and nobody is talking.FBI Special Agent Jake Maguire is on the most romantic trip of his life - his honeymoon on the beautiful islands of Hawaii with his stunning new wife. But when a U.S. Marine is found dead while surfing, their idyllic vacation takes a dangerous turn. As Jake and his fearless and inquisitive bride investigate, they uncover a sinister plot by a white supremacist group to infiltrate the military and carry out deadly attacks on American soil. Determined to stop them at all costs, the newlyweds must integrate into the colorful island ...

Bruce Douglas is finding a dead cow a week – with the heart removed – in the mountains of his Kohala ranch. Is this a bizarre homage to long dead King Kamehameha, or something closer to home? Private eye Daisy Williams travels to Hawaii to help her sister and brother-in-law solve the mystery. When another cow is taken, the entire ranch races out to hunt down the rustlers. Daisy, the last to leave, gets lost and is captured. Will they find her body with her heart removed, too?

International terrorists again threaten Hawaii but this time they also have three cops in their sights - Kali, Nui and Mano. A sequel to Mano.

Charles “Chuck” MacKay had quite the career. Or two. From special ops utilizing his forensic accounting skills to an ordinary accountant with ordinary clients throughout Hawaii. All that ends when his wife’s car is found at the bottom of a cliff. Was it an accident, road rage, or murder? If it is someone from Chuck’s not so ordinary past, why was Carol targeted? An ex-military buddy, Bruce Levine, might have answers. Will it take the resources of Bruce’s P.I. firm, Valor Investigations, to get to the bottom of this? Chuck flies to Mapleton, Virginia to take Bruce up on his offer ...

“…a twisted, fast-paced story of deception and intrigue, which proves both creative and unique.” — BookLife Prize They're Gone, But I'm Still Here Mandy’s life has become a complex labyrinth following the tragic death of her husband and twin daughters. Despondent and depressed, she withers away in a drunken haze on a glorious Maui beach, longing to turn back time, plagued by strange dreams of her family. Even with her in this state, handsome surfer, Chase, cannot stop thinking about the mystery woman he sees lying on the beach every morning, and he befriends her. A relationship is...

A riveting political thriller and love story. Set primarily in contemporary Russia and the United States, here is a novel that brilliantly knits together four seemingly unconnected lives: Adam, a CIA intelligence operative who suffers from albinism and searches for the Russian assassin who killed his mother, an act he witnessed as a child; Lily, a young Hawaiian Chinese journalist who falls in love with him; Bazil, an Indian intelligence operative from Mumbai who befriends Adam; and Zahira, a beautiful Afghani girl mutilated by the Taliban.

Matt and LeAnn are in Hawaii for Maria's wedding to Lucas. Matt has been having dreams about the day he rescued LeAnn as they arrive in Kauai, while great changes have been taking place in the lives of those he loves. Leaving Hawaii briefly to fly with Meagan to Paris, and share in her exciting news, Matt discovers that not all is as it seems with someone very dear to him. Once he discovers the reason, his world will never be the same. Meanwhile in Portugal, a beautiful Italian girl with whom Matt has only a passing acquaintance is having one last fling at living while she still can. When ...

Roger finds a box in the ocean containing more than a quarter of a million dollars in cash while SCUBA diving in Hawaii. He attempts to return the money to the proper authorities. But things go wrong. Before long the money has disappeared along with two missing FBI agents who can’t be found, and Roger is in trouble with the local police and the FBI. Was the missing money intended for an illegal drug deal, as a payoff for crooked cops, or as a ransom for a kidnap victim? Is it real or counterfeit? Roger follows a twisted trail of illicit drugs, police corruption, and murder in this ...

In “Christmas Aboard,” D. M. Sorlie takes readers on a thrilling journey through World War Two’s misleading clues and espionage. Set during Christmas of 1942, the story delves into the depths of war as the Alboran Sea becomes a backdrop for intense action and suspense. The book opens with Tommy, an Italian doctor, who finds himself in a potentially explosive triage situation. With a nervous young Italian Soldier holding a Red Devil grenade in the hospital ward, Tommy must navigate a high-stakes scenario to save Christmas. Danny’s successful Christmas Eve party on the hospital ship, ...