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The Girl in Paradise

Bella Walker FBI Mystery Series, Book 1

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The Girl in Paradise

By: A.J. Rivers
Narrated by: Claire Duncan
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Welcome to the Aloha state.
On this island paradise, may your stay be full of fun and adventures.
And may your head be always with you.

They say the past is what makes you, but in some circumstances, it could kill you. For FBI forensics specialist Bella Walker, the one case that made her career, The Harbinger case, still continues to haunt her. In need of a much-needed vacation Bella boards a plane to visit a good friend in Honolulu. Unfortunately, her arrival is met with a request to assist on a new murder investigation.

Within the palm jungle, the bodies of six rich elites are found beheaded in a bizarre ritualistic style murder on sacred Maoli land. The scene baffles the police and Hawaiian FBI field office. The case is dubbed "The War Gods Case" due to the war god Ku being left with the victims.

As Bella investigates, she faces police corruption, departmental politics, and the deadly crime syndicate the Yakuza. To add to the mystery, leaks from within the Bureau keep frustrating the case, and every team member harbors dangerous secrets.

There's a price for paradise, but the question is, how much are you willing to pay for it?

©2023 A.J. Rivers (P)2023 A.J. Rivers
Detective Hawaii Psychological Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Mystery Fiction Suspense

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An exciting story but poorly read.

The story seemed very promising but I was continuously distracted by the reader. I always check for and saw a named reader in the title details because I don’t care for AI readers. If this was an actual person reading they must not have read the book before performing it. Much of the meaning of a sentence was changed by wrong emphasis or splitting sentences in the middle of a phrase. This sounded like a poorly voiced AI to me and I had a hard time finishing it.

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The story sounds like it was written by a student with no literary writing experience. The narrator can’t even pronounce some of the words correctly. Waste of money or in this case credit.

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The narrator was so hard to listen to. I am only on chapter 3 and I’m not sure I can listen to any more of the book.

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