Even a holiday can be darkest before dawn.She just wants to survive.The sixteen-year-old Robin Hood bandit responsible for starting an anarchy movement in Hawaii is now the target of an escape plot at a juvenile detention center, sparking FBI agent Lei Texeira to get involved with a manhunt.She just wants to find the burglar.Someone is stealing food from Aunty Rosario’s restaurant kitchen, but … burglar.
Someone is stealing food from Aunty Rosario’s restaurant kitchen, but the holiday takes an unexpected turn when she catches the thief in the act.
Favorite Hawaii recipes submitted by readers and served in Aunty Rosario’s Hawaiian Food Place restaurant are included!
***Clipped Wings 4.5 takes place between Broken Ferns #4 and Twisted Vine #5.***
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I love all the Toby Neal books. They read so fast its like eating chocolate, one bite and you’ve just got to have more!
Hello again Lei! This short story is between Broken Ferns #4 and Twisted Vine #5 in the Paradise Crime series and shows another side of Lei (now an FBI agent) that is not about finding “the bad guy” but helping a young girl she’s been mentoring. In parallel we get to read a heart-warming story about Aunt Rosario and 3 orphan kids. Just grab your hot-cocoa on a Sunday afternoon and enjoy your end of the weekend with this novella.
I loved this Novella that had one of my favorite characters, Lei, in it! Loved the story line and it filled out some of the other books that I have read in this series and made me love more of the characters in the series! The story was intense but short and made you want to pick up the next full length book in the series to read again! Loved the recipes that were included as it brought to mind the different cultures we all have and made me want to try them out! Thanks Toby for another great book in the series! Loved, Loved, Loved it!
Clipped Wings was a fantastic short in the Lei Crimes series, I really enjoyed the story and the kindness throughout the story there were wonderful characters I’ve loved for years and some new faces as well and omg the recipes they were an absolute treat at the end of a great light hearted Christmas short.
Clipped Wings is a quick heartwarming read, perfect for the holidays or if you are jonesing for a Lei Texeira fix. And it has delicious Hawaiian recipes!
While visiting Consuelo in the Oahu Youth facility (the teen Lei had arrested), she notices something is wrong with Consuelo. With bruises on her face and a looming inmate, Consuelo is scared to let Lei know of the threats she is under. Lei brings in not quite a friend, reporter Wendy Watanabe, to help apply pressure to the head of the facility, to move Consuelo to a safer place.
Meanwhile, Lei’s Aunty Rosario is experiencing her own mystery of theft at her restaurant and calls Lei asking for her advice and help in solving the crime. When Aunty finds the thieves, she can’t help but to open her big heart and home wide open.
When you finish the story, your heart will be warm and melty, and if you try the recipes your tummy will be warm, too.
Oh, my! A Lei flash=back! What fun! Lei is determined to help Consuelo, a girl she’s been mentoring, who is serving time at the Oahu Youth facility. She is in deep trouble with her cell mate. An escape is in the works and doesn’t go quite as planned. Lei and that crack reporter, Wendy Watanabe, we’ve come to know, to the rescue! You will absolutely love this short story featuring Auntie Rosario and her big heart. And her recipes. (This takes place when Stevens was only a ‘boyfriend’, hee, hee!).Be prepared to want to go back and re-read Broken Ferns and maybe all the rest!
Justice is traditionally depicted on Court buildings as a blind female figure, meaning she’s supposed to be unbiased and make her judgements are based solely on the evidence she hears.
With this in mind, Tanya R.Taylor has cleverly made her MC and amateur sleuth, Lucille Pfiffer blind too; but there’s a twist in the tale as readers of the previous two novels in the Lucille Pfiffer Cozy Mystery series will know, as Lucille’s also ostensibly completely blind too. Yet beneath her sweet little old lady exterior lies a secret – she has ‘ ‘inner sight’ given to her by the resident ghost of her neighbour’s grandfather, Sir Clement Tucker.
The previously mute phantom has become like a close friend to Lucille and persuaded her, (in tandem with her verbose pal Merlene Bostwick and faithful, loving Shi Tzu (Va)nilla, to finally uncover the whole truth about who murdered him in his prime.
To find out what happens when the trio gets too close for someone’s liking, you’ll have to get yourself a copy of Blind Justice, by the incredible Tanya R. Taylor.
Villains beware – the truth will out, when Lucille/Blind Justice is on the case!
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I love the whole series!!!