Echoes
Hawaiian Storm mystery 4
“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” — Michel Foucault
In 1999, the Kahuna was The Man on Oahu’s leeward side. The coolest guy at the wildest parties, with the coolest posse, the best weed and the most beautiful girlfriend.
Then he disappeared.
Fifteen years later, that girlfriend is no longer a high school senior. She is FBI Special Agent Vanessa Storm, and she sees through every lie the Kahuna spins when he shows up again to beg her help.
How can she say no when the Kahuna wants her help not for himself, but to protect his little sister. Young Christine Koraka is ready to set fire to the whole Oahu illegal drug trade—for revenge.
Dead Man Lying
Hawaiian Storm mystery 3
She knows when you’re lying …FBI Special Agent Vanessa Storm is back on Maui to catch a killer.
With lush rain forests, black sand beaches, and a laid-back lifestyle, Maui offers the perfect retirement location for once-famous country singer Steven Sangster … until he ends up dead.
As the killer, or killers, strike again and again, FBI Special Agent Vanessa Storm must untangle the lies spun by the singer’s associates, friends, family — and the singer himself before the music dies.
First Place winner of the East Texas Writers Guild First Chapter Award — Mystery — work in progress.
Palm Trees & Snowflakes
Hawaiian Storm 2 — a Christmas novelette
Snowflake has a whole new meaning in Hawaii. The new designer drug being trafficked through Oahu gives users the perfect high—and slowly kills them.
In Honolulu, where the palm trees are strung with lights for the holidays, FBI Special Agents Vanessa Storm and Alan Terakawa have their hands full trying to stop this deadly flow. Faulty intel brings the agents into a deadly firefight, which yields even more puzzles.
“This short story packs a punch”
Torn Roots
Hawaiian Storm mystery 1
Detective Kaimi Kekoa accepts a short-term position as Acting Lieutenant in Hana on Maui’s rain-forest coast. By his second week on the job, trouble comes in unexpected forms.
As environmentalists, property developers, protesters, arsonists, kidnappers and a rogue Homeland Security agent converge on his new post, Kaimi feels like the eye of a brewing storm. And when new FBI agent Vanessa Storm gets involved, Kaimi realizes the stakes are much higher than a quiet period in his career.