Gone On Kauai — Bruce W. Perry

Amanda Wilcox is a beautiful young GMO activist who disappears paddleboarding on Kauai. Her plight becomes fodder for the tabloid media, especially in Manhattan where her father is a prominent lawyer.

A famous actress named Turner Espray pledges to spare nothing to help find Amanda. But it falls to the retired NYPD detective and P.I. Karl Standt to go to the Hawaiian island and fix a botched, seamy investigation. The detective finds a web of murky connections in the tropical paradise, hints of corruption that expose the island's drug- and agro-financed underside.

Joining Standt on Kauai is Katie, a girlfriend and reporter, the hacker Church, Chris K, a surfing, pot-loving local investigator, as well as Vereen, a gonzo helicopter pilot who used to fly in Iraq.

A burned-out ex-cop named Bruno Reilly is also looking for Amanda, or is he? He has a suspicious relationship with a pampered crew of execs partying on a yacht. They don't mind that Amanda has disappeared. Her anti-GMO crusade is bad for business.

Is she a shark fatality, or still alive, somewhere, on or off the ocean? The drug scene hangs over everything like bad weather. Church and iz have their own problems with an Ecstasy habit. The hacker, Katie, and Standt are immersed in an atmosphere of equatorial noir as they try to find out what happened to an All American girl.