Coconut Wireless: Funny Cozy Cat Mystery in Hawaii

Toby Neal

Apr 2023 · Neal Enterprises INC

About this ebook

"If you like the Miss Fortune series, you'll love Kat and her clue crew on Maui!" ~Reviewer

The coconut wireless is humming in Ohia, Maui, and the latest topic of gossip is me, Kat Smith. 

I’m Secret Service, not Postal Service—but I feel like a criminal when I’m appointed postmaster to a cozy little village on Maui. Turns out I’ve stolen a well-earned promotion from beloved Auntie Pua Chang, who’s been there forever—but all I want to do is hide out in paradise until the witch hunt to kill my career is over.

I haven’t been in Ohia a day when Tiki the post office cat brings a prize to my doorstep—a piece of the woman who had the job before me. I’m thrust into the middle of a murder mystery, and if I don’t help solve it, I might be next—but it’s hard to tell whom to trust.

A fortune-telling general store owner, a hunky Hawaiian pilot, Tiki the cat, and a couple of well-meaning cops named Lei and Pono seem to want to help—but they're all Auntie Pua supporters, and she'd be happy to see the last of me.

This Hawaii village has more factions than a Mafia convention in Vegas, and I’m on my own tracking a killer with only a grumpy cat for backup.

“Can't stop reading and chuckling! Kat is my new favorite heroine!”~ Reviewer

Ratings and reviews

Love the new protagonist Kat a Secret Service Agent sent to Hawaii as a Federal post office manager definitely not a promotion. Her shack behind the post office leaves much to be desired including a cat who is not pleased with it's new roommate. Add Lei and Pono to the mix and what more could we ask for. Looking forward to Kat's next chapter. I am so happy to be a member of Ms Neal's ARC team.

Hitting the wrong person, ended Kat’s job in DC and being put in witness. protection program and a job in Hawaii. As the plane takes off she gives us a detail look of the people and the disaster upon landing. Giving one the idea that things and people will not be dull for her in Hana, Maui. It’s a fun story, funny, with characters we have loved from her other Paradise Crime books. A cat named Tiki, who has an attitude, and gives presents. It maybe a cozy, yet so much more to enjoy and read.

While reading Coconut Wireless, I was delighted to encounter some ohana from other Toby Neal books. Lei, Pono, Sophie and others were woven into the story, creating comfort for me in this new tale with Kat. And Kat’s English version Sophie-isms were wonderful additions sprinkled into the story. Even if you’ve never read a Toby Neal book before, the Coconut Wireless story is a great place to start. The characters are engaging and the plot keeps the reader guessing. Mahalo Toby!!

About the author

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

Enjoy a brave female sleuth? 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 on an ongoing vigilante justice manhunt.

Paradise Crime Cozy Mysteries continue in the same Hawaii crime solving world!

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

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.

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Neal also writes romance 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 memoirs under TW Neal.

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SERIES ORDER:

Paradise Crime Cozy Mysteries (with Kat)

Coconut Wireless 1

Small Island 2

Hawaii TIme 3

Paradise Crime Mysteries (with Lei)

Blood Orchids

Torch Ginger

Black Jasmine

Broken Ferns

Twisted Vine

Shattered Palms

Dark Lava

Fire Beach

Rip Tides

Bone Hook

Red Rain

Bitter Feast

Razor Rocks

Wrong Turn

Shark Cove

Hidden Falls

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

Wired Ghost

Wired Strong

Wired Revenge

Wired Target

Standalones:

Unsound (Dr. Wilson)

Stolen in Paradise (Special Agent Marcella Scott)

Island Fire (YA)