Book description
Storm Kayama needs to build her clientele, so when surf promoter Marty
Barstow's wife Stephanie walks into her new law office, Storm agrees to
represent her, despite her distaste for a bitter divorce situation. When
Stephanie's son Ben, a promising surfer, invites her to O'ahu's North
Shore for a contest, Storm jumps at the chance. Not only will it be a
thrill to observe the meet, but Storm will also have the opportunity to
watch a distant cousin compete. Nahoa Pi'ilani has grown from a
mischievous kid to a surfer of international renown, and he seems to
have put the trouble that once brewed between their families behind him.
Then a child delivers a package to Nahoa containing an ancient Hawaiian
weapon, a wooden club encircled with shark's teeth. Storm recognizes the
lei o mano. It's a threat, a call to battle. Events soon suck her into a
vortex of escalating peril - as if she were in the green room, the
underwater space where tons of churning water can imprison a surfer.
Storm is buffeted and disoriented by local legend, greed, and cutthroat
competition and must confront not only a vicious killer but a haunting
incident from her past. 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).
