The Noelani Lee Mysteries Saddle Road Samba

To their classmates in the Wai¿kea High School class of 1995, they were The Triplets-an insular trio of self-absorbed girls who graduated summa cum laude in condescension. Decades later and several years apart, two of them vanish under identical circumstances from a desolate stretch of asphalt called the Saddle Road. The remaining Triplet then seeks Hawaiian PI Noelani Lee's help to find out what happened to her friends.Once a target of their cruel taunts, Noelani swallows her pride and takes the case, beginning with the second Triplet's unfinished true-crime podcast-in which she was on the verge of identifying the person responsible for her friend's earlier disappearance. At the same time, Noelani is frustrated at her failure to track down a larcenous funeral home director, the defendant in a multi-million-dollar malpractice lawsuit. But when he's found bludgeoned to death in his home, Noelani soon unspools links between his xenophobic Hawaiian separatist group, the two missing women, a questionable real estate deal, and an illegal adoption ring.As she explores the unfulfilled adult lives of all three Triplets, Noelani confronts a case paved with barefaced bigotry, long-buried secrets, and brazen denial, all as she questions the meaning of loyalty and friendship-and comes to grips with her own unhappy past.

Pages: 284, Paperback, Tom Bradley Jr.