Blood Orchids, first in this series, on sale for .99 for a limited time only!Paradise hides darkness behind a beautiful face.The teen in the car at the base of the cliff is no suicide.When a nameless young girl is found in a crashed vehicle on the rocks of one of Maui’s black lava cliffs, Detective Lei Texeira can’t rest until she finds out what really happened. She blazes through all the wealth … rest until she finds out what really happened. She blazes through all the wealth and poverty of Maui island society in her quest for justice even as she faces the personal demons of commitment and revenge that threaten the only real love she’s ever known.
That girl should never have crossed me.
I know who I am—a procurer of beautiful things for people who can afford them. Men and women for pleasure, fine art for collectors, and money for the mob. Lei Texeira is nothing but an annoyance. I’ll take everything she loves, burn down her house, and take her life, too…just because I can.
“Toby Neal’s stories have a relentless, charged energy that heat up every page.” Holly Robinson, author of Sleeping Tigers
Grab this fast paced mystery with a twist of romance, and take a trip to Hawaii with the series that’s sold more than a million copies!
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A great mystery
The subject of human trafficking is horrible to think about, but a reality non the less. Relegating a person to nothing but an outlet for the twisted pleasures of another, as if they were inanimate, is reprehensible.
I am bummed that Lei had dumped her boyfriend actually seems to be a litter form of that. Use him up as he supports her and is …
Absolutely love all of his books! Never disappoints!!
Enjoyed it
read the whole series like all of them and the other series that highlite the other characters
Loved it!
Nice setting. Good, realistic characters. Plots are believable and intriguing,
Lei and Stevens are caught up in a human traffic scheme when Lei investigates a car going over a cliff and the finding of a young woman’s body inside. She and Stevens are lovers with more issues than they are able to deal with plus they are an incredible criminalists with a thirst for justice.
I love this series by Toby Neal. I have read them all. Just wondering if there will be another one to continue her story.
I really liked the book and have bought several other books by Toby Neal. I like the intrigue and characters. I wanted everything to work out. They remind me of the Alphabet mysteries by Sue Grafton. I like a strong female character.
Love the author
Toby Neal delivers consistently great reads
A good read
Hard to believe that there is organized crime in Paradise, but Lei and Stevens find their beautiful Maui haven infested. Lei, tough as ever, has a nose for finding crime along with all the trouble that accompanies it. The heroine may make you mad, but you won’t slap your forehead at her mistakes because she is slowly learning patience and …
What can I say, each book just gets better and better. This one is chuck full of strong women leading the chaos and I love it. Fast paced, easy flow, suspenseful, and scintillating to say the least. Can’t wait to see what kind of trouble Lei Texeira finds herself in next.