Shattered Palms

(Paradise Crime Mysteries, Book 6)

By: Toby Neal

Narrated by: Sara Malia Hatfield

Maui is lush mountains, cloud forest and exquisite birdsong - but for Detective Lei Texeira, arrows break that peace. Someone is stalking poachers that are capturing Maui's rarest birds, and Lei pursues the case with her usual leap-first, look-later style - but will she be able to catch a killer, save the birds, and still make it to her own wedding? Shattered Palms is a roller coaster ride from the top of Haleakala to the beach and back again, with extinction at stake.

©2014 Toby Neal (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Toby Neal creates a captivating balance of the beauty of the islands contrasted with the ugliness of murder, and complicated by the trials of Lei's personal life. A must-read for Neal fans." (Thomas K. Matthews, author of Rejection)

Shattered palms

This book was enjoyable and interesting. The characters were feisty and always getting into trouble.

Too much. Too little

The protagonist was too whiny. She followed police protocol too seldom. Although the author explains her behaviour away as caused by childhood trauma, by the middle of the tale I stopped caring. This is the first and last story I will read by this author.

A great listen as usual, Mahalo!

Performance excellent and true to characters...so good it goes by too fast! Glad it's done by a local narrator!! Love her voice and style of storytelling. Looking forward to Dark Lava!

Story both interesting in regards to Hawaii's native birds and feels true to Hawaii's local culture. More relationship stuff in this one though so reading or listening to previous books is kinda necessary for more enjoyment. Keep them coming!!

Enjoyable!

Love love love your voice Sara!!!! You bring the story to life!! Always amazed at you're performance!

A little slow for me

The book was good but story progression was to slow for my personal taste. I really enjoyed the characters of the book and plan to read more of the series.