After a brief brush with Hollywood and fame, Carrie Jorgenson is happy to be back in her adopted hometown of Aloha Lagoon, Hawaii, serving up pineapples and poi to her beloved regular customers and vacationing tourists alike at the Loco Moco Café. She's once again surrounded by good friends, her fur baby Benny, and reunited with her true love, Keanu.
But all is not perfect in paradise.
Shortly after Carrie's happy homecoming, Keanu’s gorgeous ex-girlfriend, Tammy, shows up for the Aloha Lagoon’s weekly luau, ready to hula dance her way into everyone’s hearts. Carrie can’t help but feel a little intimidated by her graceful moves and obvious charm. However, when Tammy collapses at the end of her dance, things go from awkward to awful. Suddenly the luau is a crime scene and everyone is a suspect in the death of the hula girl. To make matters worse, Tammy was holding a secret over Keanu’s head, which shoots him straight to the top of the suspect list. Carrie will need to stay cool, stand by her man, and prove his innocence before their lives erupt like a volcano!
Delicious Hawaiian recipes included!
What critics are saying
"This cozy series will hook you so you’ll want to read all that came before!"
~ Book review Crew
"You are going to want to visit Aloha Lagoon Resort as much as possible, and you will not want to leave!"
~ Cozy Mystery Book Reviews
About Aloha
There's trouble in paradise...
Welcome to Aloha Lagoon, one of Hawaii's hidden treasures. A little bit of tropical paradise nestled along the coast of Kauai, this resort town boasts luxurious accommodation, friendly island atmosphere...and only a slightly higher than normal murder rate. While mysterious circumstances may be the norm on our corner of the island, we're certain that our staff and Lagoon natives will make your stay in Aloha Lagoon one you will never forget! (Summary via Goodreads)
The Aloha Lagoon Mystery series published by Gemma Halliday Publishing is a GREAT series to read, enjoy, follow and fall in love with !!! This series is written by multiple authors. They have the resort and surrounding shops, restaurants, and other businesses in common as well as Detective Ray. Then the author has their own story that they create with a slue of characters and businesses that they center around along with the murder ....
Death of the Hula Girl is the twenty-fifth book in the series and the third one written by Catherine Bruns. It centers around Carrie Jorgenson who moved to Kauai, Hawaii, to start a new life that was low on the drama side. She gets a job waitressing at the Loco Moco Cafe where she meets Keanu Church. Carrie has been living there for about a year and has a steamy relationship with Keanu, enjoys her job and has a small circle of friends.
In Death of the Hula Girl Carrie has been away from the island to film a movie in Hollywood. Yes, it's exciting but she realizes that thet isn't her big dream anymore. She wants to be with Keanu doing what they have been doing. Unfortunately before Carrie and Keanu can have their alone time, he is called back to the resort to help with the luau since the Loco Moco Cafe is supplying the food. Carrie goes along to help out but before the luau starts Carrie meets Tammy who insists that she is Keanu's girlfriend. Tammy is there to perform with the hula dancers at the luau that night but wants to talk with Keanu.
Carrie has nothing to worry about until Tammy ends up dead. And yeah, you guessed it, Keanu is a suspect. Luckily only for a hot minute. But that doesn't stop Keanu and Carrie from looking into her death. And to make things even better, Detective Ray is actually looking to them to help instead of his usual yelling at them to stay away !!
As I have read every book in this series, and hope you have also or will be starting, there is so much to love about it. I really wish the Aloha Lagoon Resort actually existed because this hate to travel girl would make an exception.
Check out the series, it has it's very own website !!
https://www.gemmahallidaypublishing.com/aloha-lagoon-mysteries
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