The eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii tests Officer Jenny Freitas like nothing else in her young police career. It’s not enough that she finds a murder victim in a doomed house just seconds before the lava overwhelms it. A second victim draws Jenny back to the danger zone again and again. Maybe the goddess Pele isn’t satisfied with owning the islands. Maybe she, and the killer, want Jenny too. Street Smart Series #5.
Albert Tucher is the author of thirty-five published short stories and five unpublished hardboiled novels about prostitute Diana Andrews. One story, called Bismarck Rules, appears in the anthology The Best American Mystery Stories 2010. When Diana isn't looking, he sometimes fits a stand alone story into his writing schedule.