Peril Under the Palms — K.K. Beck

An exotic cruise churns up a murder wave.

A Hawaiian haunting...
When sugarcane heiress Antoinette Caulfield docks in Hawaii to visit her grandparents, she's met by a ghost: her school chum and chaperon, Iris Cooper, spots the figure of a woman in white shadowing Antoinette!

A figure from the past...
Certain the vision is her long-dead mother--or someone more sinister?--Antoinette begs Iris to investigate, and to keep the entire mystery from Antoinette's very proper fiance, Walter.

Murder by coconut...
But the flapper sleuth has barely begun to poke around when a wealthy Boston spinster--last seen in a moonlight embrace with a surf instructor--is found dead beneath a coconut palm.

Amidst the exotic flora and fauna, Iris and ace reporter Jack Clancey uncover a garden of sins and family secrets...and one very clever killer.