Death in Paradise Kate Flora | ISBN : 0-312-86398-5

Death in Paradise

Author: Kate Flora

Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

Publication Date: 30 October, 1998

ISBN: 9780312863982

Pages: 352

Subjects: Mystery

Available as: , Trade Cloth, 978-0-312-86398-2 E-Book - EPUB, 978-1-61417-140-9

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"Death in Paradise Thea Kozak is a tough, energetic business-woman. She is someone who is carving a lucrative career for herself as an educational consultant while juggling all the stresses of modern life - and maintaining a sometimes long-distance relationship with Andre, the devilishly handsome Maine state trooper she met while trying to solve her sister's murder. It's a '90s kind of lifestyle and it would be perfect ... except that murders seem to pop up around her like bad debts." "While on a holiday to attend an educational seminar in Hawaii, Thea is determined not only to make the conference a success but to soak up some sun and get in some serious down time. What she hasn't bargained for is a dead body, none other than the conference chairwoman, strangled and done up like an expensive call girl." "As Thea tries to keep the conference from disintegrating into chaos, she discovers more motives for the woman's death than positive attributes about her life, and more suspects than she can handle."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 1998-07-20

Education consultant and amateur detective Thea Kozak (An Educated Death, 1997), returns in a yawner set in Hawaii. Kozak, attending an educational conference in Maui, far from her home state of Maine and the embraces of her hunky boyfriend, Detective Andre Lemieux, finds herself reluctantly embroiled in a murder investigation. Conference director Martina Pullman is found dead in her hotel room, dressed in sexy lingerie and strangled with a stocking. Pullman, naturally, had made an enemy of every board member at the conference, not to mention the first wife of her husband, Jeff. When Pullman's assistant Rory Altschuler attempts suicide and when she herself is almost drowned on a scuba expedition, Kozak begins to suspect even those whom she longs to trust. Flora's verbosity fails to flesh out the characters, most of whom are stereotypical and shallow. Beautiful Maui features hardly at all as a backdrop. The one bright spot is 11-year-old Laura Mitchell, Kozak's self-appointed Watson, whose nose for detective work puts her in the path of danger as the murderers use her to get to Kozak. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved