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Terry Ambrose
Full Series List in Order
License to Lie
1 - License to Lie (Dec-2012)2 - Con Game (May-2014)
3 - Shadows from the Past (May-2019)
A McKenna Mystery (Trouble in Paradise)
1 - Photo Finish (Jul-2012)2 - Kauai Temptations (Oct-2013)
3 - Big Island Blues (Nov-2014)
4 - Honolulu Hottie (May-2016)
5 - Mystery of the Lei Palaoa (Dec-2015)
6 - North Shore Nanny (Aug-2016)
7 - A Damsel for Santa (Nov-2016)
8 - Maui Magic (Jun-2017)
9 - The Scent of Waikiki (Jul-2018)
10 - On the Take in Waikiki (Nov-2020)
A Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast Mystery
1 - A Treasure to Die for (Nov-2017)2 - Clues in the Sand (Apr-2018)
3 - The Killer Christmas Sweater Club (Nov-2018)
4 - Secrets of the Treasure King (May-2020)
Book List in Order: 22 titles
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Photo Finish
- Jul-2012
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Catch island fever with this funny Hawaiian mystery set on the beautiful island of Oahu. Wilson McKenna's newest tenant is hot, gives great hugs, and just saw a dead body being thrown from a plane. McKenna's not one to get involved in other people...
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License to Lie
- Dec-2012
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Never trust a soul -- even your own. With Five Million Dollars and their lives on the line, can a determined criminologist and a beautiful con artist learn to trust each other -- or themselves? Both are experts in the art of communications. Both are ...
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Kauai Temptations
- Oct-2013
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Wilson McKenna has never written a bad check in his life. So how did he end up with $4,000 in returned checks from an island he’s never been to? He knows one thing, make that two, the bank wants their money, and he’s going to Kauai to track down ...
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Big Island Blues
- Nov-2014
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McKenna flies to the Big Island of Hawaii to help find his best friend’s missing niece. No sooner has McKenna’s search begun than he’s got a teenage hacker messing with his investigation, has uncovered deep family secrets, and is caught in the ...
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Mystery of the Lei Palaoa
- Dec-2015
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A precious necklace…an arrogant stranger…an unsolvable murder…Apartment manager Wilson McKenna just got a gift card to Honolulu's newest, upscale coffeehouse from his rich, PI-wannabe tenant, Chance Logan. Wouldn't you know it? Trouble breaks o...
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Paradise, Passion, Murder
- Jan-2016
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From the Big Island to Kauai, the far side of Maui to the bustling streets of Honolulu, experience paradise in all its glory...and darkness. This collection of ten stories brings out the beauty of the islands, the passion of the tropics, and, yes, mu...
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Honolulu Hottie
- May-2016
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When a con man dies, no one cares…except his killer.Apartment manager Wilson McKenna’s day tanks when the cops accuse an old friend of killing a ruthless Honolulu scammer. McKenna hates to break the “no more amateur sleuthing” promise he made...
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North Shore Nanny
- Aug-2016
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Some secrets are too dangerous to reveal...McKenna and his friends are taking a sunset cruise off the coast of Honolulu when they discover a stowaway. The stowaway turns out to be ten-year-old Kai Palakiko, one of O‘ahu’s best young surfers. Kai ...
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A Damsel for Santa
- Nov-2016
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Not even the freak hurricane bearing down on Honolulu can dampen Wilson McKenna's holiday spirit. His girlfriend is coming to town, and they'll be celebrating their first Christmas together. Everything changes though when Chance Logan shows up and be...
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Maui Magic
- Jun-2017
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The eighth Trouble in Paradise island mystery featuring senior sleuth McKenna and his PI-wannabe sidekick Chance Logan. Whatever happened to easy? McKenna had the perfect cover for his plan to propose marriage. He and his girlfriend Benni would help ...
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A Treasure to Die for
- Nov-2017
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Bandit gold and sunken pirate ships. What could be better for the reputation of a quaint coastal California town like Seaside Cove? Local eyebrows go up when eight friends come searching for a 16th Century Spanish galleon. After all, everybody knows ...
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Clues in the Sand
- Apr-2018
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To Rick Atwood’s dismay, the police find a body on the beach near his Seaside Cove B&B. The dead woman held a pottery shard from an ancient rice bowl, which the cops believe is a clue to her murder. The chief suspect is Flynn O’Connor, a female a...
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The Scent of Waikiki
- Jul-2018
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Honolulu landlord Wilson McKenna can smell a scam from across the room. So when one of his tenants loses everything in a work-at-home scam involving a new perfume, he's shocked. With his wedding just weeks away, McKenna has to make a tough decisio...
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The Killer Christmas Sweater Club
- Nov-2018
- / Amateur Sleuth
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All ten-year-old Alexandra Atwood wants for Christmas is to get her dad and the B&B’s cook Marquetta under the mistletoe. After all, how can they get married if they don’t kiss first?When murder strikes in Seaside Cove, bed-and-breakfast owner Ri...
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Shadows from the Past
- May-2019
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For 546 days, con artist Roxy Tanner has been living with guilt. After the victim of her last con died, Roxy swore she’d ‘go straight.’ She’s fought hard to change her life, and has even taken in a headstrong street kid named Lily Jamison. De...
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Secrets of the Treasure King
- May-2020
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Secrets can be a deadly affair.Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast owner Rick Atwood isn't surprised his little town is all abuzz. After all, it's not often that a band of treasure hunters sail into town aboard a boat the size of The Treasure King. They've ...
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On the Take in Waikiki
- Nov-2020
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Trouble in paradiseFormer skip tracer turned apartment manager McKenna is back in his tenth senior sleuth cozy mystery.Honolulu philanthropist Kenji Ito has gone missing. His daughter is worried something has happened to him. So, she asks former skip...
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Treasure Most Deadly
- Apr-2021
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Seaside Cove amateur sleuths Rick and Alexandra Atwood are back!Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast owner Rick Atwood is again called on to assist his friend, Chief of Police Adam Cunningham, with a murder investigation. The case seems straightforward enoug...
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Lies, Spies, and the Baker's Surprise
- May-2022
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The wedding of Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast owner Rick Atwood and Marquetta Weiss is only days away and the B&B is abuzz with excitement. But the mood changes when Rick's daughter Alex does a little snooping. She overhears Henry Nicholas on his cellp...
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The Case of the Amorous Assailant
- Oct-2022
- / Police Procedural
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New PI Jade Cavendish's investigation into a cheating husband takes a bizarre turn when she uncovers a plot to commit murder.The Amorous Assailant has frustrated police for months. His MO is always the same. He binds his victims with red silk, kisses...
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Dead Men Need No Reservations
- May-2023
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A party of six guests checks into the Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast, but one checks out early. Dead.The Chief of Police asks Seaside Cove B&B owner Rick Atwood to help solve the murder of Snappy Welles, a man Rick viewed as a born troublemaker. Rick q...
Award-Winning Books by Terry Ambrose
2015 San Diego Book Award -- Action & Adventure