The Wailoa Waltz

<p><strong>The only thing standing between the truth and facts...is family.</strong><br> </p><p>For Hawaiian PI Noelani Lee a typical Wednesday morning begins like any other day. But a bizarre series of events propels her into a case rife with disjointed family dynamics unsettled scores and murder.</p><p>It all starts when an elderly survivor of the 1960 tsunami asks Noelani to find her lost<em> maneki neko</em> or Japanese lucky cat. One problem: the ceramic figurine has been missing for 30 years. But before she can say no Noelani is caught in a grudge-fueled tug-of-war between the scions of two once-powerful organized crime families who also want the cat and a shadowy former underworld kingpin whose motives are less than transparent.</p><p>In taking a case she doesn't want and would be better off avoiding Noelani finds a connection between the missing cat and a decades-old unsolved murder-and an unexpected unwanted and gut-wrenching family reunion.</p>