Death in Paradise - Tapa dura

Death in Paradise is the latest title in Kate Flora's sassy Thea Kozak series. On a holiday to attend an educational seminar in Hawaii, Thea is determined not only to make the conference a success but soak up some sun and get in some serious down time. What she hasn't bargained for is a dead body, none other than the conference chairwoman, strangled and done up like a very expensive call girl. As Thea tries to keep the conference from disintegrating into chaos, she discovers more motives for the woman's death than positive attributes about her life and more suspects than she can handle. Throw in some overly hostile local policemen, a suspicious husband -- and an old family friend who makes Thea's mother look like a saint -- and it looks like Thea isn't in for any kind of peace.

Kate Flora currently teaches mystery writing at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and hosts the mystery section of her local radio show, "Pages to People."