Iced in Paradise
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Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes the No. 1 murder suspect, Leilani must find the real killer and somehow safeguard her ill mother, little sisters, and grandmother while also preserving a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend in Seattle.
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2 primary booksA Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Naomi Hirahara.
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For Read Harder Challenge #24, Pick a challenge from any of the previous years' challenges to repeat. I chose Read a mystery where the victim(s) is not a woman, from 2020.
I also read Kerning: A Space for Words for #15, Read a new-to-you literary magazine (print or digital). It's not in Goodreads, so I will declare it here. And with that, I have finished this year's challenge.
The setting of Hawaii is wonderful because the author has done so much work to bring the authentic Hawaiian culture and language into the book. We hear about issues that the Hawaiian people face, like quiet titles.
Leilani is a wonderful character! She is very much herself and isn't apologizing for it. She doesn't always make the best decisions and isn't always sure what she wants, but she is always trying to do the right thing. Her family, Sean, and the other people of Waimea are well drawn characters as well.
Leilani is focused on family, but still makes decisions about her live life. I appreciated the way the romance was written in this one.
The mystery is to interesting. I never would have guessed the solution, but the clues were definitely there. The other suspects were definitely suspicious. I liked the way it ended.
This was a great mystery!!
