THE LAST RESORT

About the Book

This riveting story is part mystery, social commentary, and fascinating Hawaiiana. Grace Hill, the narrator, tells the hidden truth about what goes on behind closed doors of The Palms, an independent retirement community in Hawaii. Grace and her Clue Crew of three friends help a Hawaiian police detective solve six mysterious deaths among the residents. Characters are the flamboyant manager of the home and her bumbling husband, a transgender masseuse, a tipsy Cajun chef, a militant social director, and 110 rattled seniors who survive a ballistic missile alert, a hurricane, and a norovirus epidemic. This irreverent romp through everyday life in a retirement home is the sequel to Menu For Murder, published in 2015, in which the Clue Crew and police crack the murders of five residents.

About the Author

The author’s first article appeared in the Washington, D.C. Star at age eleven. After graduating from the University of Colorado, she moved to Honolulu, then to Guam. In 1969, she wrote the first tourist guidebook to Guam and Micronesia and was a staff writer for daily newspapers. Upon retirement from U.S. Civil Service in 1991 as a technical writer/editor for Navy publications, she returned to Colorado. When not skiing moguls, she wrote travel articles for magazines and newspapers and published four books. She has sailed the seven seas on freighters and luxury liners. She lives on Maui.