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Mirror, Mirror,
Rapid Eye, &
Ring of Truth by Agatha Award-winner Elena Santangelo (
SYKM), 3 mystery shorts with supernatural elements in her Twins series starring twin psychologists, at least one of them originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
In this short murder mystery of about 4000 words, a man sees premonitions of serial murders but no one believes him, until psychologist Sara Ziegler is sure that her twin sister Gen is the next victim.
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The Lucinda Legacy by Robert Mitchell, a treasure-hunting adventure thriller originally out from Queensland-based small publisher Boolarong Press in 1991. This is the novel that won him the Australian writing prize mentioned in his bio-blurb.
Diamonds
Eight million dollars' worth.
The Lucinda, the pearl lugger that led the fathers of the sons to the sparkling stones. The lugger which bequeathed the legacy of that fateful day in March 1942 to those sons. A legacy kept hidden until.....
But are they still waiting in their secret place? Do they still wail for the dead and those soon to be dead?
The sons of the fathers, urged on by that legacy forty-four years further on. Mistrust fighting hate, anger curbed by greed, as the sons race across the great continent of Australia towards destiny, towards the once booming town of Broome, towards...
Eight million dollars.
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Murder on Moloka'i by Chip Hughes, 2nd in his Surfing Detective series of mystery/thrillers, originally out from small press Island Heritage Publishing (from whom I've read one or two Hawaiian-specialty history books from the library in the past, IIRC) in 2004. This is a new edition expanded with behind-the-scenes author's notes, which may be of interest to aspiring writers or people who just like behind-the-scenes stuff.
This new Slate Ridge Press edition of the classic Hawaiian mystery concludes with “The Making of MURDER ON MOLOKA’I”—fifty-five pages of previously unpublished excerpts and explanatory notes by the author. These bonus materials give us a glimpse into the creative process behind the book and expand our conception of the Surfing Detective and his Hawai‘i. A must for fans of the wave-riding gumshoe!
When Boston heiress Adrienne Ridgely strides into his Honolulu office, Surfing Detective Kai Cooke likes what he sees, but doubts what he hears. Adrienne’s sister, environmental activist Sara Ridgely-Parke, plunged to her death from a mule on Moloka‘i – the first fatal incident on the soaring cliffs above Kalaupapa’s fabled leper colony. Murder, cries Adrienne, perpetrated by Sara’s ex-husband, developer J. Gregory Parke. Cooke flies to Moloka‘i, tracking tantalizing leads to an unlikely murder that, despite himself, he starts to believe in.
Was the mule prodded or spooked or drugged? Did Parke do it for vengeance, or Adrienne for an inheritance, as Parke alleges? Soon Kai uncovers a motive more noxious than either of these – entangling him in the shady dealings of big-time developers, corrupt politicians, and underworld thugs. As he hops from island to island seeking a pivotal clue, the clock ticks down on more than the P.I.’s case or even his own life. The future of Moloka‘i itself is at stake.