Blogs in July 2023

Six Months in the Sandwich Islands 7th July 2023

This classic of Hawaiian literature offers a charming glimpse at the splendid and fascinating world of pre–American Hawaii. Isabella Lucy Bird won fame in her own time as the most remarkable woman traveler of the nineteenth century, and Six...

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Drowning 17th June 2023

Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors—but it’s too late. The plane sinks to the...

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The Codebreaker’s Secret 22nd May 2023

During WW2, a young codebreaker is posted to Hawaii. Having lost her brother in the attack on Pearl Harbour, she seeks to connect with his best friend, who is still posted there. In the mid 1960s a young reporter...

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The Kona Shuffle 8th May 2023

When a commercial airliner belly-whomps on an abandoned Hawaiian airstrip, four nearly identical black backpacks—including one containing a small fortune in stolen gold and gems—end up in the wrong hands. Private investigator Noelani B. Lee, hired by an unscrupulous...

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The Saddle Road Samba (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 7) 8th May 2023

To their classmates in the Waiākea High School class of 1995, they were The Triplets—an insular trio of self-absorbed girls who graduated summa cum laude in condescension. Decades later and several years apart, two of them vanish under identical...

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