Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published during April 2014 by NAL Hardcover, is Aloha Betrayed by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain.
For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for April 2014. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of April 2014 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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Aloha Betrayed
Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
Series: Murder, She Wrote (41st)
Jessica is on the Hawaiian island of Maui, giving a lecture at Maui College on community involvement in police investigations — a subject she knows well. Her co-lecturer is legendary retired detective Mike Kane, a behemoth of a man who shares his love of Hawaiian lore, legends and culture with Jessica.
Sadly, all the talking stops when the body of a colleague is found at the rocky foot of a cliff.
Mala Kapule was a botanist and popular professor at the school, known for her activism and efforts on behalf of the volcanic crater Haleakala. The high altitude crater is already the site of an observatory, but plans to place the world's largest solar telescope there split the locals, with Mala fiercely arguing to preserve the delicate ecology of the area. Was someone trying to muffle the protestors? Or was Mala's killer making a more personal statement?
Now, it's up to Jessica, along with Mike, to uncover who was driven to silence the scientist … and betray the true meaning of Aloha.
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