Description 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.
Annotation After Leilani Santiago discovers a young pro surfer dead in her family's shaved ice shack on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, she must work to exonerate the No.
1 murder suspect, her estranged father, the star surfer's coach.
About the Author Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, including Blood Hina, Strawberry Yellow, Sayonara Slam, and the seventh and final in the series, Hiroshima Boy .
She is also the author of the L.
-based Ellie Rush mystery series, published by Penguin.
Her Mas Arai books have earned such honors as the Chicago Tribune 's Ten Best Mysteries and Thrillers and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.
The Stanford University alumna lives in Pasadena, California.
Prospect Park Books Iced in paradise: a leilani santiago hawai'i mystery, paperback/naomi hirahara
