2019
First Published
3.59
Average Rating
216
Number of Pages
Part of Series
Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes the No. 1 murder suspect, Leilani must find the real killer and somehow safeguard her ill mother, little sisters, and grandmother while also preserving a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend in Seattle.
Avg Rating
3.59
Number of Ratings
641
5 STARS
16%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
39%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Naomi Hirahara
Author · 19 books
Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar Award-winning author of multiple mystery series, noir short stories, nonfiction history books and one middle-grade novel. Her Mas Arai series, which features a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes, has been translated into Japanese, French and Korean. Her two other series star a young mixed race female LAPD bicycle cop, Ellie Rush, and a Filipina-Japanese American woman in Kauai, Lellani Santiago. Her first historical mystery, CLARK AND DIVISION, will be released by Soho Crime in August 2021. She, her husband and Jack Russell dog live happily in her birthplace of Pasadena, California.
