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Burned
A Regan Reilly Mystery
Carol Higgins Clark
ISBN: 0743476662
Mass Market Paperback, 384pp
Publication Date: April 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
List Price: $7.99
Synposis
(from the publisher): 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 infatuatedwith 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?
Additional Notes:
9th Regan Reilly mystery.
Hardcover: Simon & Schuster 0743242750 (March 2005).
