Fatal Paradise: Sandwich Island Quintet: Book One

By T.C. Lawrence

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966300408
• ISBN13: 9780966300406
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Dark Matter Pr
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

This One is Well Worth Your Time! I Highly Recommend It.

"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.

"Fatal Paradise" takes you into the eye of a storm!

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.

Murder, mystery, mystical, & Hawaii - you'll love this one!

I couldn't decide what I liked most about this book: the vivid descriptions of Hawaii or the non-stop action & mystery; luckily I didn't have to choose. The Chases seem to attract trouble like the islands attract tourist; and while both might complain about it, they obviously thrive on it. Mr. Lawrence manages to capture the reader's attention while giving a great lesson on Hawaiian weather, landscape, and race relations.

Couldn't put it down.

Clever juxtaposition of murder, mahem and nature's fury in a serene island setting. Well developed characters truly illicit the reader's emotion. Great story with descriptive passages that put you right there, on Kauai, in the middle of a powerful hurricane, trying to solve a murder mystery plot along with the characters. This one keeps you guessing.

A page turner about deception and murder on Kauai island.

Mr. Lawrence weaves a tale of deception and murder as a vacationing dysfunctional family witness both evil as well as environmental destruction through a series of killings in the midst of Hurricane Iniki on the Garden Isle of Kauai.