Michael Herr: 2 books

For generations on the Big Island of Hawaii, the women of the Pono family have guarded the secret hiding place of the bones of Queen Ka'ahumanu, King Kamehameha's favorite wife and powerful ruler herself. Now as Haunani, matriarch of the family, feels old age approaching, she must turn over her responsibilities, and the family lands, to one of her four daughters. But which one?

In this sixth book of the Kohala Coast Mystery series, a mother from Kauai grieves for the death of her daughter and the theft of her treasured Elvis remembrance. She follows the killer's trail to the Big Island, there to bring the women of the Pono family into her search. But the women of the...