Clipped Wings: A Paradise Crime Mystery Christmas Novella with Recipes

Name: Clipped Wings: A Paradise Crime Mystery Christmas Novella with Recipes
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Toby Neal

Dec 2019 · Neal Enterprises INC

5.0

2 reviews

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127

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About this ebook

Even Christmas can be darkest before dawn.

She just wants to survive.

The sixteen-year-old Robin Hood bandit responsible for starting an anarchy movement in Hawaii is now the target of an escape plot at a juvenile detention center, sparking FBI agent Lei Texeira to get involved with a manhunt.

She just wants to find the burglar.

Someone is stealing food from Aunty Rosario’s restaurant kitchen, but the holiday takes an unexpected turn when she catches the thief in the act.

Favorite Hawaii recipes submitted by readers and served in Aunty Rosario’s Hawaiian Food Place restaurant are included!

***Clipped Wings 4.5 takes place between Broken Ferns #4 and Twisted Vine #5. A portion appeared as a short story in an anthology.***

Ratings and reviews

5.0

2 reviews

Cheryl Davis

December 11, 2019

I loved this Novella that had one of my favorite characters, Lei, in it! Loved the story line and it filled out some of the other books that I have read in this series and made me love more of the characters in the series! The story was intense but short and made you want to pick up the next full length book in the series to read again! Loved the recipes that were included as it brought to mind the different cultures we all have and made me want to try them out! Thanks Toby for another great book in the series! Loved, Loved, Loved it!

Sheree Ito

December 10, 2019

Clipped Wings is a quick heartwarming read, perfect for the holidays or if you are jonesing for a Lei Texeira fix. And it has delicious Hawaiian recipes! While visiting Consuelo in the Oahu Youth facility (the teen Lei had arrested), she notices something is wrong with Consuelo. With bruises on her face and a looming inmate, Consuelo is scared to let Lei know of the threats she is under. Lei brings in not quite a friend, reporter Wendy Watanabe, to help apply pressure to the head of the facility, to move Consuelo to a safer place. Meanwhile, Lei's Aunty Rosario is experiencing her own mystery of theft at her restaurant and calls Lei asking for her advice and help in solving the crime. When Aunty finds the thieves, she can't help but to open her big heart and home wide open. When you finish the story, your heart will be warm and melty, and if you try the recipes your tummy will be warm, too.

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About the author

***Kirkus Reviews calls Neal's writing, "persistently riveting. Masterly."***

Award-winning, USA Today bestselling social worker turned author Toby Neal grew up on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Neal is a mental health therapist, a career that has informed the depth and complexity of the characters in her stories.

Readers rave: "We love Toby's fast-paced, character-driven stories set in wonderful places. Nobody can read just one!"

You can get TWO FREE award-winning, full-length Toby Neal books by signing up for her email newsletter!

http://tobyneal.net/TNNews

Enjoy a badass female cop? Neal's Paradise Crime Mysteries, starring multicultural detective Lei Texeira, explore the crimes and issues of Hawaii from the bottom of the ocean to the top of volcanoes.

Spinoff Paradise Crime Thrillers, with Lei's friend Sophie, features a tech sleuth with a mean left hook and an ongoing vigilante justice manhunt.

Neal's also written the romance thriller Scorch Series (with Emily Kimelman) and her own Somewhere Series romances under Toby Jane.

Toby's memoir, Freckled: a Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii, has been widely praised. Kirkus calls Freckled, "an affecting and riveting chronicle...in a Hawaii long lost." She writes memoir under TW Neal.

You can get TWO FREE award-winning, full-length Toby Neal books by signing up for her email newsletter! http://tobyneal.net/TNNews

SERIES ORDER:

Paradise Crime Mysteries (with Lei)

Blood Orchids

Torch Ginger

Black Jasmine

Broken Ferns

Clipped Wings (novella)

Twisted Vine

Shattered Palms

Dark Lava

Fire Beach

Rip Tides

Bone Hook

Red Rain

Bitter Feast

Razor Rocks

Paradise Crime Thrillers (with Sophie)

Wired In

Wired Rogue

Wired Hard

Wired Dark

Wired Dawn

Wired Justice

Wired Secret

Wired Fear

Wired Courage

Wired Truth

Standalones:

Unsound (Dr. Wilson)

Stolen in Paradise (Special Agent Marcella Scott)

Island Fire (YA)

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