Death in Paradise by Carolyn G. Hart6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The glistening cardboard had been folded in half to slip easily into the postal service’s two-day, red-white-and-blue priority mailer. Yet, once my eyes saw the shiny white posterboard in its entirety, once my vision encompassed all of it-the cut-out pictures and story, the artfully pasted letters, the single stark sketch, and the taped plastic bag-a sickening acceptance washed over me. If I’d come upon a cobra, hood flared, deadly tongue flickering, I could not have been more transfixed. Because the deaths did no begin or end with Richard Collins.and someone's dark and enduring homicidal passions have yet to be fully satisfied. But now that her search for the truth has brought Henrie O to this lethal paradise where giant palm fronds hide evil deeds from inquisitive eyes, she may never be allowed to leave alive. Following cryptic clues and her infallible instincts to a lush and verdant tropical Eden-andto the lavish mountaintop estate of wealthy matriarch Belle Ericcson, where Richard spent his final days-the determined sexagenarian sleuth becoems privy to terrible allegations of greed and jealousy, adultery and abuse.and of a mystery surrounding the kidnap-slaying of Belle's eldes child CeeCee. ![]() ![]() Now, on a brisk March morning, a chilling message has arrived by Priority Mail claiming Richard's fatal fall from a towering island cliff was no accident-it was murder. Six years ago, Henrie O's beloved newspaperman husband Richard lost his life on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. ![]()
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