Kalliope Brooks has faced more than her fair share of trouble behind the bar at The Lazy Gecko. After helping solve several murders in Owhiro, she and her best friend Tess are finally taking the plunge — training to become private investigators.

Their first real case arrives when their mentor is contacted by the daughter of a man brutally murdered at the annual Celebration of Sandcastles festival. But the suspect list is as long as the beachfront, and every alibi seems to be built on shifting sand.

As Kallie and Tess dig deeper, they uncover buried grudges, dangerous rivalries, and secrets that could shake their hometown to the core. With a murderer still at large, they must solve the case before the next wave of violence crashes over Owhiro’s sunny shores.

In paradise, danger hides just beneath the surface.

[This is book 4 is a series, but it works fine as a standalone. There are no spoilers for earlier books.]