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Rick Ludwig’s Maui Mysteries Series.
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Coming August 13, 2024 from Babylon Books
Complete the Maui Mysteries Trilogy
On August 13, 2024, Babylon Books will launch the final book in my Maui Mysteries Trilogy, Soul of a Sleuth . eBook version now available for pre-order.
If you haven’t read either of the two preceding Maui Mysteries, this is the perfect time to order and read the paperback or eBook versions of Eyes of the Beholder (Book 1) and Voice of the Victim (Book 2) to prepare yourself for Soul of a Sleuth (Book 3).
In these books, I take you to the lovely island of Maui and introduce you to an impressive detective sergeant with the Maui police department, Keone Kaimi Boyd. This six-foot, seven-inch, two-hundred seventy-five-pound Hawaiian is called Big-guy by his friends and feared by those who break the law on Maui. It’s not just his size that frightens criminals, it’s also his amazing ability to solve the most difficult and bizarre cases. Some say the spirits of the island help him, Keone says it’s local knowledge and lucky guesses.
In the first book, Eyes of the Beholder, A wrong-way driver causes a devastating collision in paradise. Even Keone, born and raised on the spirit-filled island of Maui, is not prepared for the investigation that follows. The facts lead him to an abused wife, an oily drug distributor, an observatory on the top of a dormant volcano, and a man who claims he’s traveled to Maui through an invisible contact between universes. He knows following the facts in paradise can take you far from where you expect or want to go, but this one takes him where he’s never gone before. Frustrated, conflicted, and faced with deadly threats to himself and those he cares about, Keone uncovers events and theories that challenge his views of life, police work, and reality. How can one otherwise boring suspect, who believes left is right, impact the lives of so many? The answer to that question may only lie in the eyes of the beholder.
In the second book, Voice of the Victim, Keone heads to the Mediterranean for a fairy-tale honeymoon with his new bride, while back on Maui, Keone’s boss, Lt. Tony Alcala is called to a horrific shooting in Maui’s peaceful ‘Iao Valley. Understaffed and overworked, Alcala, takes his best detective’s advice and puts Keone’s protégé and friend Sergeant Angela Beyers on the case. During her investigation, Angela discovers a file on the victim’s computer with clues to the shooting. But the file, clearly written by the victim, was saved while he was in a coma at Maui Memorial Hospital. So, who left the clues? And how? As Angela investigates, Keone boards a luxury cruise but is recruited by Europol to help investigate a serial killer methodically eliminating Olympic athletes. The killer claims to be a Greek god of death and plans to kill a Canadian Olympic medalist in each of the ship’s ports of call. Does the computer contain actual memories or a vivid fantasy? Is a mythical god sending athletes to Elysium or a deranged maniac murdering them? Are the investigations related or are the lines between reality and fantasy dissolving both on Maui and twelve time zones away? A good detective always listens to the voice of the victim.
In the upcoming third book, Soul of a Sleuth, now partners, Maui PD Detective Sergeants Keone Boyd and Angela Beyers investigate the brutal murder of a local drug pusher. The body is found across the street from Maui PD headquarters, with its tongue cut out and its lips sewn together. For Keone and Angela, the murder stirs echoes of their former cases. In the midst of the investigation, Keone is summoned by his elderly grandmother. In her visions, Pele, the most powerful of the Hawaiian gods, wakes from her slumber to confront an ancient evil that threatens their beautiful island home—an evil Keone has faced before, thousands of miles away, and failed to destroy. Can this be related to the murder? What are the visions trying to tell him? This time Keone has no choice. Either he ends this evil, or the evil ends him—and everyone he loves. Even unborn children in the womb are threatened. This lovely and vital island continuously reminds Keone that his soul is inextricably linked to the source of their very existence in the bubbling fires of Pele.
These books, set in ten years before the devastating fires that destroyed the lovely town of Lahaina, show Maui as it was—and as I pray it will be again. A vital place, filled with tropical beauty, friendly active people, and the spirit of the land, the ʻāina. The spirit of aloha.