Primitive Secrets

When her adopted uncle is found dead at his desk in their lucrative Honolulu law firm, Storm Kayama begins to suspect that he was murdered, and, after narrowly escaping a terrible accident, she seeks refuge at the home of her Aunt Maile, a traditional Hawaiian healer, as she confronts the pain of her own childhood and tries to bring her uncle's killer to justice. Reprint.

Deborah Atkinson's novels weave the legends and folklore of the Hawaiian Islands into suspenseful mysteries, a perspective of Hawaii the tour books never show. The series consists of four novels,Primitive Secrets (2002), The Green Room (2005), Fire Prayer, (2007), and Pleasing the Dead, (2009). Atkinson lives in Honolulu, Hawaii and is active in Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, the Iowa Writers' Summer Workshop, and a recipient of the University of Hawaii's Meryl Clark Award for Fiction.

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