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BURNED by Carol Higgins Clark - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Carol Higgins Clark.
Regan Reilly and her best friend, Kit, are on vacation in Honolulu,
intent on having a Hawaiian adventure. They won't be disappointed!
When we last saw L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly, she'd recently become engaged. On the opening pages of Burned,
Regan gets a call from Kit, urging her to come to Hawaii for one last
girls' weekend before she ties the knot. The snowstorm of the century
is blanketing the East Coast. Regan can't get to New York to visit her
fiancé, Jack "no relation" Reilly, and Kit can't get back home to
Connecticut. So Regan packs a bag and is on her way.
At the
Waikiki Waters Playground and Resort, where Kit has been staying, the
body of Dorinda Dawes, who wrote the hotel newsletter, washes ashore.
Around her neck is an exquisite and historically valuable shell lei
that once belonged to a Hawaiian princess, a lei that had been stolen
from the Seashell Museum in Honolulu thirty years before.
Will Brown, the manager of the resort, doesn't believe that it's an
accidental drowning. In the three months Dorinda had worked in Hawaii,
she had become a controversial character who had a reputation for
pointing out the very worst in people. Will is afraid that she was
murdered and that the murderer might still be in their midst, perhaps a
guest at the resort.
Besides Dorinda's death, strange things have been happening at Waikiki
Waters. Luggage has gone missing, food has been tainted, and tubes of
suntan lotion are being dropped into the toilets. Could someone be
trying to bring down the whole establishment?
Lucky for Will, he happens to meet Regan Reilly in the hotel lobby and
convinces her to get on the case. Since Kit is infatuated with a new
love interest -- Steve, a fabulously wealthy thirty-five-year-old
retiree living on Oahu who is eager to spend time with her -- Regan is
free to take the job. But once she starts digging, she comes across all
sorts of suspicious characters. And the closer she gets to the truth,
the more danger she's in.
Can Regan find out what really happened to Dorinda before it's too late for someone else? Before it's too late for her?
Is the culprit someone from the tour group visiting from Hudville, a
town where it rains 89 percent of the time? Is it one of the employees
at the hotel? Could it be Jazzy, a social climber who has a job
house-sitting on the Big Island? Just who had it in for Dorinda?
Regan's investigation takes the reader on a fast-paced ride from
Waikiki to the Big Island of Hawaii and back again.
Carol Higgins Clark's trademark light touch, humor, and quirky characters make Burned yet another wonderfully unpredictable mystery, complete with a thoroughly satisfying denouement.
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