When the Fighting Roosters of Prince Kuhio Prep descend on the Coconut Cove Paradise Resort for their twentieth high school reunion, I figure the worst thing that could happen is running out of mai tais. Then a body drops at the welcome luau, my detective boyfriend turns up looking like he’s seen a ghost, and suddenly I’m investigating a class full of beautiful people who’ve spent two decades hiding what they did the night they graduated.
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Humor with a side of homicide. A laugh-out-loud standalone cozy mystery by New York Times, USA TODAY, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Addison Moore. Includes RECIPE!
Welcome to paradise, where the reunions are deadly, the romance is piping hot, and some secrets are twenty years overdue.
My name is Jinx Julep, and I run a ramshackle resort in paradise where the pools are finally working, the chickens still have opinions, and apparently, high school reunions come with a side of murder.
When my detective boyfriend Koa Hale’s twentieth class reunion takes over the Coconut Cove Paradise Resort, I’m thrilled about the rooster-red banners, the open bar, and the chance to finally meet the people who shaped him. Then his old high school sweetheart sweeps in to chair the whole thing, his fortune-making BFF arrives in a private jet, and a guest collapses at my welcome luau before the first round of mai tais is even served. Suddenly I’m investigating a love triangle that’s been at war for two decades, a Vegas real-estate queen with a secret, and a self-made boat-paint billionaire and his rotating harem.
Between getting cornered by a high school sweetheart who’s decided I’m her competition, surviving a foam-rooster mascot who keeps trying to swallow Spam whole, dodging the constant question of whether Detective Hale’s ex-wife is about to walk through my lobby, and figuring out which of the class members did the deceased in, I’m starting to think the real killer at this reunion is wearing the warmest smile.
The reunion must go on, my wooden-spoon-wielding cook Lani is suddenly very invested in the truth, and somewhere between the senior-year slideshow and the inevitable midnight skinny-dip, I need to clear the man I love before twenty years of buried secrets get someone else killed.
Because in paradise, the past doesn’t stay buried.
It comes back with a class ring, and a body count.