Publisher Description
Rumored to hold more spirits than people, the remote tropical paradise To’aga frightens many Samoan locals—but not Detective Apelu Soifua. Reeling from the loss of his young daughter, Apelu retreats to the haunted island for a self-imposed exile. He spends his days drinking, trying to ignore the ghosts in his head, and receives few visitors other than a shamanistic recluse and a pair of dedicated marine biologists conducting research.
But after a crew of surveyors arrives, Apelu makes a disturbing discovery: foreign investors plan to build a resort hotel on the coast, a project sure to destroy the To’aga coral reef and shatter the island’s peaceful way of life. When tensions rise and someone—or something—commits a gruesome murder, Apelu must force himself out of retirement to solve the case. Can the heartbroken detective navigate both modern and mystical forces to find the killer and appease the angry spirits of To’aga, in this third book of the Jungle Beat Mystery series?
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About John Enright
John Enright was
born in Buffalo, New York, in 1945. He earned a master’s degree in folklore at UC Berkeley, before devoting the
1970s to the publishing industry in New York, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. In
1981, he left the United States to teach at the American Samoa Community
College and spent the next twenty-six years living on the islands of the South
Pacific. Over the past four decades, his essays, articles, short stories, and
poems have appeared in more than seventy books, anthologies, journals,
periodicals, and online magazines. His collection of poems from Samoa, 14
Degrees South, won the University of the South Pacific Press’ inaugural
International Literature Competition. Today, he and his wife, ceramicist Connie
Payne, live in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
About Phil Gigante
Phil Gigante has narrated more than two hundred audiobooks, earning ten AudioFile Earphones Awards and three of the prestigious Audie Awards for best narration. An actor, director, and producer with over twenty years of experience in theater, film, television, and radio, he is currently the artistic director of Gigantic Productions and Little Giant Children’s Theatre.