![]() “Torch Ginger,” the second book in the series, is set on Kauai. “Rip Tides,” book nine in the series, landed on the USA Today Bestselling book list and garnered Neal a bronze medal in the 2016 Independent Publisher Book awards. Neal plans to release the capstone to the story, “Bitter Feast,” on May 12. The first, “Blood Orchid,” was published in 2011. Lei Texeira is the main character in Neal’s suspenseful stories, spanning 12 novels, in which the sleuth investigates crimes throughout the islands. “She became Lei Texeria - that part of me that wants to find answers to the issues and problems that plague our islands.” “I began writing a short story on my anonymous blog about a damaged young policewoman who finds the bodies of two young girls floating in a pond and it just kept going,” Neal said. Neal said she admired how the police handled the situation, but she had a thirst to find the truth behind the deaths for herself. Later, police said the girls accidentally drowned while swimming in the sugar cane irrigation tunnels. ![]() Initially, the deaths were deemed to be homicides. ![]() While she was there, two girls from the high school drowned and she was part of the crisis grief response team. She took root in the imagination of Kauai-raised author Toby Neal when Neal was working as a counselor at a middle school on Maui. HAENA - Leilani “Lei” Matsumoto Texeira was born out of tragedy. ![]()
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