Book description
Storm Kayama's old high school friend, Tanner Williams, wants a favor.
He's asked her to come to Molokai to make sure his ex-wife is taking
good care of his adolescent son, a newly diagnosed diabetic. In the
meantime, Storms law partner and lover, Ian Hamlin, is investigating the
possibility that a Molokai kayaking company's negligence played a part
in the disappearance of Brock Liu, the son of an Oahu shipping magnate.
It looks like a great excuse for Storm and Hamlin to get away from
Honolulu for the weekend. But Storm soon finds that Tanner has bigger
problems than he let on, including his bitter wife Jenny Williams, a
history of mental illness, and ties to a local protest group linked to
an unsolved ten-year-old homicide. A few hours after Storms visit to
Jenny's home, twelve-year-old Luke Williams finds his mother dead on
their living room floor. Luke calls the police, and then he disappears.
Storm believes Luke may have seen his mother's killer and is in grave
danger from both the murderer and his fluctuating blood glucose levels.
Her chase after Luke and answers leads through the dense rainforests,
pristine beaches, and untamed wilds of Molokai. Are Brock Liu's
disappearance and Jenny William's death linked to the old homicide?
Inspired by Tony Hillerman's work, Deborah Atkinson weaves the legends
of Hawaii into fast-paced, high-tension suspense novels. Pleasing the
Dead is the fourth in the series, which includes Primitive Secrets
(2002), The Green Room, (Book Sense pick for October, 2005), Fire Prayer
(2007, winner of a New Covey Cover Award).
