The George Eliot Murders — Edith Skom

HULAS AND HOMICIDE

Professor Beth Austin is an expert on nineteenth-century novels and a born sleuth. But taking along George Eliot's Middlemarch on her Hawaiian vacation was pure serendipity. She never dreamed the classic novel would help her solve a murder....

Arriving at the elegant Royal Aloha hotel, Beth finds the food exceptional, the ocean view divine, her handsome tennis partner intriguing...and the "accidental" death of a beautiful woman a shock. But as Beth observes the marriages of some longtime guests--a lottery winner and his glamorous spouse, an adman and a lady doctor, a lawyer and his ditsy wife--she senses an undercurrent of malice. Then she stumbles upon a gruesome murder and begins to see in George Eliot's brilliant study of disillusionment the key to the killing...and is hit by the chilling realization that knowing too much might put her next in line to die....