Emma Jones, a 20-something IT consultant, is working on an outsourcing project at Tahiti Tacos, a restaurant chain offering Polynexican cuisine - refried poi, anyone? Emma despises her boss Padmanabh, a brilliant but arrogant partner in GD Consulting. When Emma discovers His-Royal-Padness's body (verdict: death by cricket bat), she becomes a suspect. With her overprotective family and her best friend Stacey providing endless support and advice, Emma stumbles her way through an investigation of Padmanabh's murder, bolstered by fusion food feeding frenzies, endless cups of frou-frou coffee and...

Most definitely not a private investigator, detective, beat cop, sidekick or girlfriend of any of the above, Emma Jones nonetheless has an alarming penchant for close encounters of the corpse kind. This time, she finds peace activist Laguna Butterfield pierced with a protest placard - three days after Emma's landlady Magda threatened to kill her. Whether she is infiltrating the anti-war Lime-O group to track down Laguna's killer, consulting at a recently devoured - er, acquired - candy company or surfing in shark-infested waters, Emma faces the angry and aggrieved at every turn. Even her 'ipo...

Emma Jones, IT consultant, corpse magnet, and sometime sleuth doesn't realize her assignment in Hawai'i will be such a blast--until a car bomb deposits Yet Another Stiff in her path: Greg Walker, a loathsome Lothario and despised real estate developer. Suspects abound, including a former Miss Lentil Beauty Queen and the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. Complicating Emma's snooping is a parade of visitors to Hawai'i: her boyfriend Keoni, her best gal pal Stacey, and her mother armed with enough self-defense gizmos to hold off King Kamehameha's army. Paradise, it seems, abounds with evil. (Remember...