HAWAIIAN LEI OF SHRUNKEN HEADS is Katerina Sestakova Novotna's first fiction book. It is a collection of murder stories that are dark, funny and philosophical at the same time. They all take place in Hawaii, a place known for ethnic and cultural diversity, and they present a few different perspectives on race, religion and other topics. The author, a philosopher by training, is not afraid to touch controversial questions that have puzzled the greatest thinkers in a humorous and nonacademic way. The narrators of her stories are not scholars. They are personalities as diverse as an insane...

Laa, a girl from Bikini Atoll, is very naive. She does not always understand men, philosophy of religion and the world in general since she has spent most of her life on an isolated island with limited access to information. She has studied closely only three books: "The Marshallese Bible," "Princes and Princesses" and "The Christmas Book." Yet she does her best to interpret these sources, and confronts them with her own daily observations. It seems obvious to Laa that American missionaries were mistaken about many things. How could an all-good, all-wise and all-powerful God forget about...

Book Two in The Twisted Rings Series "Twisted Martial Arts," a story of depravity and greed, follows a number of MMA fighters and their interactions with each other both in the training arena and between rival gyms. We also meet Evelina again, the main character from the first book in the series. "Butt Man," a confession of a narcissist, reveals a strange fetish of a man who felt unwanted and neglected as a child. "Three Sacred Orifices" is a tale about a pretty tease who toys with her theology professor until dark revelations stop her in her tracks. The last story was originally published in...