Fatal Paradise

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Summary: This One is Well Worth Your Time! I Highly Recommend It.
Review: "Life is not a warrior's spear, said the hula master, the course of which, from the time it is loosed until the point buries itself in the target's dark belly, is determined at the instant of release ---" With those haunting words, with Nature's power suddenly unleased to transform a first class lounge into a death trap of hurtling glass and debris, and with murder by poison in a hotel room in paradise, T. C. Lawrence in his first 10 pages propels the reader and the Chase family into a vacation in Hawaii that, unlike the warrior's spear, follows no expected path.

With murder, intrigue, a Force Four hurricane, and a serpentine plot, Fatal Paradise was more than enough to satisfy my taste for action, adventure, and mystery. But Fatal Paradise is more than an adventure novel. It is as well the story of paradise threatened - by sinister and ruthless forces; and here the author's personal knowledge of Hawaii and its native people comes through to make this aspect of the story particularly poignant.

Fatal Paradise is also the story of a family divided coming together again as a series of life-and-death experiences forces them to better comprehend themselves and each other and to better value their relationships. In this regard, the author has provided complex and believable characters, who deal with the experiences they face as ordinary people might, rather than with the one dimensional aplomb of the heros in a typical adventure novel.

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Summary: Great reading while on recent vacation to Poipu, Kauai.
Review: Fast moving. Good use of characters, although too many open-ended situations. I got a good feeling for the Island of Kauai, locations, sites and events where well described. I'm looking forward to reading future books in the Sandwich Island series.

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Summary: "Fatal Paradise" takes you into the eye of a storm!
Review: The storm in this thriller has many fronts--ecological, geographical, political, historical and psychological--to name a few. T.C. Lawrence knows how to draw your attention into a tale of suspense located on Kauai, the garden isle of Hawaii, and lets you really feel the envronment through his descriptions, and makes you want to be there, hurricane or not! This is a page turner with surprisingly true female characters by a male author, which is a rarity! Read on and look forward with me to other Sandwich Isle mysteries.