Shattered Palms

Someone is hunting the hunters.

A poacher’s death in the cloud forest on Maui draws Detective Lei Texeira into a bizarre case in a rare setting highlighting the peril of Hawaii’s native birds.

They deserve to die for what they’ve done.

A killer with a conscience will stop at nothing to save the lives of birds on the brink of extinction.

Lei pursues the case with her usual leap-first, look-later style, but can she catch a killer and still make it to her own wedding?

“Toby Neal creates a captivating balance between the beauty of the islands contrasted with the ugliness of murder, and complicated by the trials of Detective Lei’s personal life. A must-read!” Thomas K. Matthews, author of Rejection