Book Title: DEATH AT THE SPRING FLING Character Name: Kiki Hepburn   How would you describe your family or your childhood? Well, one word…privileged. I’m not particularly comfortable with saying that, but I guess I should own it. My parents – my mother born into money and my father, a self-made success – are very wealthy. So growing up, we had drivers, a penthouse, Christmas in Paris, a house in the Hamptons, just the whole deal. The downside was I grew up feeling like just another belonging. My relationship with my parents is better now. They respect my choice to go my own way and pursue my passion of scuba diving.   Significant other? My boyfriend is Dex Kokoa who works at the dive shop here in Aloha Lagoon.  His father run the dive shop and was kind enough to hire me too!   Where do you live? I live in Aloha Lagoon, Kauai, in a cute little bungalow with my landlady, Auntie Akamai – she’s not my aunt, that’s just a term Hawaiians use for older ladies (she is Dex’s actual aunt though). She has a smart-beaked Amazon Grey parrot named Paulie who gets along amazingly well with my…

1–What is the title of your latest release? HALLO-WAIIAN MURDER MYSTERY, #20 of the Aloha Lagoon Mysteries. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? It’s Halloween in Aloha Lagoon, and dive tour leader Kiki Hepburn is hot on the trail of a killer – a trail which takes her to gardens of flowering poisonous plants, an animal shelter, and a zombie themed “Hallo-wedding”, with something stalking her every move… 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? It is part of the Aloha Lagoon series, so it is set at the Aloha Lagoon resort. I decided to make it at Halloween so I could have even more fun writing it! 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes, I would definitely go diving with Kiki! 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Smart, resourceful, and underestimated. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Poisonous plants. I was shocked to see how many plants I grew up playing with in my mom’s garden are actually poisonous! 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I do a little as I write, but usually try to just…

1–What is the title of your latest release? HALLO-WAIIAN MURDER MYSTERY 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? It’s Halloween in Aloha Lagoon, and dive tour leader Kiki Hepburn is hot on the trail of a killer – a trail which takes her to gardens of flowering poisonous plants, an animal shelter, and a zombie themed “Hallo-wedding,” with something stalking her every move… 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? It is part of the Aloha Lagoon series, so it is set at the Aloha Lagoon resort. I decided to make it at Halloween so I could have even more fun writing it! 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes, I would definitely go diving with Kiki! 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Smart, resourceful, and underestimated. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Poisonous plants. I was shocked to see how many plants I grew up playing with in my mom’s garden are actually poisonous! 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I do a little as I write, but usually try to just get the story out. After I’m…

H is for our heroine, Tessa Treslow, mechanic and retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel. O is for New Oslo, Idaho, Tessa’s hometown. M is for murder. Tessa finds a murdered stranger, the scene (and her finger) pointing firmly at Tessa’s best friend, sheriff’s deputy Freddie Frederickson. E is for Edna. Tessa lives and works with her feisty Aunt Edna.   I is for investigating. Tessa has to help Freddie prove her innocence. S is for She-canics. Aunt Edna and Tessa have started a new car renovation business: Band of Sisters Services (BOSS) “Call the She-canics!”   W is for who is the real grandchild? The murder victim claims to be Freddie’s illegitimate cousin. H is for Nick Hunt, the handsome new flame who has been romancing Tessa. E is for Sheriff Joe Eriksson, Tessa’s high school ex-boyfriend. R is for Rosie the Riveter. Tessa’s grandmother (Aunt Edna’s mother) was a Rosie and they have a ceremony to celebrate her, which is interrupted by the soon-to-be murder victim. E is for Nick, being evasive…   T is for truth. What is the truth about Freddie’s grandfather? H is for Historical society mavens, Olive and Ginny Prunn, who try to assist with…

1–What is the title of your latest release? WELCOME HOME TO MURDER, first in the Hometown Mysteries series 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Tessa Treslow has retired from the U.S. Army and gone home for a visit. She’d like to just hang out and work on old cars with her Aunt Edna, but she soon finds out that a visit home can be murder… 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Having lived in multiple areas of the US, I had been struggling with the location for the small town for my book, literally for years. That is, until a visit to my parents, who had recently moved back to my birthplace. Being in my original hometown, it struck me like a lightning bolt that this is where the story was supposed to be. It just felt right. So, a small rural town in the Palouse region of Idaho became Tessa’s hometown too. 4–Would you hang out with your sleuth in real life? Absolutely. She is my kind of people. I won’t say she’s me—she’s much tougher—but sometimes I feel like she is who I could have been had I stayed in…