| Death in Paradise Contributor(s): Hart, Carolyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380790033 ISBN-13: 9780380790036 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: A courageous Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter with an unparalleled talent for deduction, Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins has unraveled some murderous mysteries in the latter years of her long, event-filled life. But this time a killer has struck perilously close to Henrie O's heart. Six years ago, Henrie O's beloved newspaperman husband Richard lost his life on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Now, on a brisk March morning, a chilling message has arrived by Priority Mail claiming Richard's fatal fall from a towering island cliff was no accident -- it was murder. Following cryptic clues and her infallible instincts to a lush and verdant tropical Eden -- and to the lavish mountaintop estate of wealthy matriarch Belle Ericcson, where Richard spent his final days -- the determined sexagenarian sleuth becomes privy to terrible allegations of greed and jealousy, adultery and abuse...and of a mystery surrounding the kidnap-slaying of Belle's eldest child CeeCee. But now that her search for the truth has brought Henrie O to this lethal paradise where giant palm fronds hide evil deeds from inquisitive eyes, she may never be allowed to leave alive. Because the deaths did not begin or end with Richard Collins...and someone's dark and enduring homicidal passions have yet to be fully satisfied. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97029701 |
| Series: Henrie O Mysteries (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 4.19" W x 6.97" (0.32 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Geographic Orientation - Hawaii - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Six years ago, Henrie O's beloved newspaperman husband Richard lost his life on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Now, on a brisk March morning, a chilling message has arrived by Priority Mail claiming Richard's fatal fall from a towering island cliff was no accident--it was murder. Following cryptic clues and her infallible instincts to a lush and verdant tropical Eden--andto the lavish mountaintop estate of wealthy matriarch Belle Ericcson, where Richard spent his final days--the determined sexagenarian sleuth becoems privy to terrible allegations of greed and jealousy, adultery and abuse...and of a mystery surrounding the kidnap-slaying of Belle's eldes child CeeCee. But now that her search for the truth has brought Henrie O to this lethal paradise where giant palm fronds hide evil deeds from inquisitive eyes, she may never be allowed to leave alive. Because the deaths did no begin or end with Richard Collins...and someone's dark and enduring homicidal passions have yet to be fully satisfied. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hart, Carolyn: - An accomplished master of mystery, Carolyn Hart is the author of twenty previous Death on Demand novels. Her books have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. She is also the creator of the Henrie O series, featuring a retired reporter, and the Bailey Ruth series, starring an impetuous, redheaded ghost. One of the founders of Sisters in Crime, Hart lives in Oklahoma City. |