Paradise hides too many bodies.
How would you take on a serial killer?
Sophie Angās lovable dog Ginger has a nose for murder, and leads her tech sleuth mistress through perilous lava fields on the Big Island to a terrible discovery. Sophie is plunged into a new investigation with dynamic partner Jake Dunn, searching for a missing young woman who is just one of many. Sparks fly between the two as they dig into layers of deception and darkness, rousing the attention of true evil.
āToby Neal sets a relentless pace that will keep you up way past your bedtime!ā ~Advance Readerā If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love childā¦she would be SOPHIE.
ā Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive, Sophie's a complicated woman!
ā Likes kids and animals more than people
ā Likes to go off the grid and hide under a fake identity
ā Never, never gives up on a case. Never.
Kirkus Reviews calls Neal's writing, "persistently riveting. Masterly."
Award-winning, USA Today bestselling social worker turned author Toby Neal grew up on the island of Kaua`i in Hawaii. Neal is a mental health therapist, a career that has informed the depth and complexity of the characters in her stories. Neal's police procedurals, starring multicultural detective Lei Texeira, explore the crimes and issues of Hawaii from the bottom of the ocean to the top of volcanoes and are so popular that they've spawned a licensed fan fiction world. Fans call her stories, "Immersive, addicting, and the next best thing to being there."