The Saddle Road Samba

<p>To their classmates in the Wai?kea High School class of 1995 they were The Triplets-an insular trio of self-absorbed girls who graduated summa cum laude in condescension. Decades later and several years apart two of them vanish under identical circumstances from a desolate stretch of asphalt called the Saddle Road. The remaining Triplet then seeks Hawaiian PI Noelani Lee's help to find out what happened to her friends.</p><p>Once a target of their cruel taunts Noelani swallows her pride and takes the case beginning with the second Triplet's unfinished true-crime podcast-in which she was on the verge of identifying the person responsible for her friend's earlier disappearance. At the same time Noelani is frustrated at her failure to track down a larcenous funeral home director the defendant in a multi-million-dollar malpractice lawsuit. But when he's found bludgeoned to death in his home Noelani soon unspools links between his xenophobic Hawaiian separatist group the two missing women a questionable real estate deal and an illegal adoption ring.</p><p>As she explores the unfulfilled adult lives of all three Triplets Noelani confronts a case paved with barefaced bigotry long-buried secrets and brazen denial all as she questions the meaning of loyalty and friendship-and comes to grips with her own unhappy past.</p>