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Pele's Tears (Claire Stone Mysteries Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Sharna Eberlein (Author), Karen Mortensen (Illustrator), Joy Phillips (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

3.5 16 ratings

Book 1 of 3: Claire Stone Mysteries

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Pele’s Tears is the premiere novel of a compelling new series – Claire Stone Mysteries, and one that will show up in the many of Claire’s adventures to come. The series is authored by Sharna Eberlein, who writes for local papers in Hawaii, This series has every making of a great sleuth series.
Pele’s Tears and Claire Stone is in the rich tradition of the tough, worldly wise, sophisticated yet earthy detective who seeks to uncover the secrets of self as much as that of the criminals they pursue. She has extraordinary talents along with compelling common sense. She knows and lives in a subculture and world exotic to most of us who read such books – yet uncovering those all-too-familiar conflicts and hypocrisies. She judges little, but knows a lot, and can find her way around the cultural back-roads as well as up the driveways of the rich and powerful.
As Claire Stone is to the Big Island of Hawaii, so some of our best-selling sleuths are to their home grounds and her mysteries will appeal to the same widespread readership, both among fans of the genre and literary readers in general.
Pele’s Tears catches the easy poetry, and floating rhythms of the Island, and – above all – provides an engaging, accessible, intriguing yet entertaining experience for readers. In that way, Pele’s Tears follows a grand tradition of quirky, fascinating amateur female sleuths going back to Agatha Christy’s Miss. Marple. There is no stopping this new character from becoming another cherished, popular icon of her genre whose name becomes a household word right from this first, compelling mystery novel.

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"She caught the faint glint of metal and suddenly felt what had to be the barrel of a gun pushing cold and hard upwards into the soft tissue beneath her jaw. She tried to step back, and felt a stab of pain as she tried to swallow reflexively. But he held her fast by the front of her blouse, his fingers hooked powerfully into the front of her bra.

She started to scream, but choked instead as he pushed the gun barrel up even tighter. “Shut up!” He rasped close into her now, and she felt his spittle hitting her cheeks and eyes. She gagged."

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SHARNA EBERLEIN is a Renaissance woman; born in the San Joaquin Valley of California into a farm family in the late 40's; she had her first solo international trip to Europe on the Queen Mary to go to her college sophomore year abroad at the tender and innocent age of 19. This colored her life to become a world traveler throughout her 20's. She traveled solo on her own dime, working jobs from waitress to nanny, to disk jockey. She didn't carry a camera; instead she had notebooks full of her writing: poetry, prose, and comments about her life's experiences. During that time, she also somehow managed to get her BA in French from Sonoma State University in California, while spending the summers working in Hawaii as a cocktail waitress. In her 30's she fell in love, became a mom and ran an organic farm in Sonoma County. In her 40's she became a single mom, got a certificate of cooking and diet counselor, while working as a telemarketer, selling tickets for fundraisers. In her mid 40's's she had to move into a tiny 500 square foot duplex, with her two children while she fought for custody and did gardening and private chef work, until she was able to get a job at a local winery as a wine consultant. During this time, she became the Managing Editor of her church newsletter. In her mid 50's she and her children moved to Hawaii, with family photographs, and boxes of her journals. In Puna, she taught aquaculture at Laulima Community Gardens' Lokowai Project, was a traveling notary, took bookkeeping at University of Hawaii Hilo, wrote the first dedicated column about working artists on the Big Island, writing strictly about Puna Artists, and with the help of a few surfer/carpenters, built her home overlooking the wide Pacific Ocean, her everlasting true love. Throughout her life she has believed in and worked hard for a Woman's Right to Choose, Domestic Harmony, and other feminist causes. She has a daughter, a son, and a hanai daughter, with 6 grandchildren scattered across the USA and the Pacific. She lives in Puna Makai with two cats, some fish, and a few chickens

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A4KB7BC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Alala Publishing; 1st edition (November 8, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 8, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1000 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 241 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #3,300,938 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #42,237 in Women Sleuths (Kindle Store)
- #49,805 in Parenting & Relationships (Kindle Store)
- #86,877 in Women Sleuths (Books)

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Shara K.

Easy Read

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2017

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I LOVED these books. I'm not really a reader, but these are a super easy read. I read the first 2 in about 3 days, and was so excited to get my hands on the third one of the series. I live in Lower Puna, where these stories take place, so it was really fun to have that familiarity with the area and the characters. Even if you don't live here, the books are rich with local Hawaiian culture and language, which makes it interesting. I will be putting these in my vacation rental for guests to read while they are visiting.

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One moment the protagonist was speaking clearly like a mature person and then mounting into unnecessary and ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2014

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The book was disjointed and confusing. I could not understand the language shifts. There was an almost complete lack of contractions throughout the book, yet the author tried to convey a sense of colloquial language use. The tenses in the writing were also confusing. One moment the protagonist was speaking clearly like a mature person and then mounting into unnecessary and incongruous profanity.
It would have been nice to have known at the beginning of the book that there was a glossary. Also word the Tita means sister in Spanish..TITA is a brand name derived on Oahu by a business woman.

The one thing that was most amazingly offensive was the writer's insensitive use of Racial Profiling and debasing language. It is never politic or polite to use the "N" word derogatorily, or for that matter any of the other deeply denigrating and hurtful racial labeling evinced in this book.. The local people in Hawaii use the word Popolo to describe persons of African descent. Usually though there are people in the Hawaiian islands who use disenfranchised attitudes towards others there is s predominantly "Hawaiian" Culturaly based sense of humor in times of stress. It would be nice if this writer who professes to know so much of the culture were able to bring that more to light.

There are an amazing amount of typos in this book. I hope the writer was able to use a better more mature Editor for the second book. The Mystery premise was good and fairly surprising. Thank you for the interesting read.

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Clarice Anderson

A good read

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2013

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This gave me insight into Hawaiian culture that I never picked up as a tourist/vacationer. It certainly kept my attention through to the last page. I am looking forward to the sequels

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shazam

Good Hawaiian Mystery Book

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2019

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Very Good read Highly Enjoyed it .

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2013

It was definitely a 'I can't put it down' sort of book. Since I live on the Big Island the familiarity with the culture and the Puna area made it an especially enjoyable read. Including colloquialisms and the feel for Hawaiian legends was a wonderful touch in this mystery novel. I certainly look forward to many sequels.

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Arati Elizabeth

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2014

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A fun read through an accurate local lens. Looking forward to 2nd book.

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cassandra wylie

Must read!

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2013

If you want a taste of the real Hawai'i, like a good mystery and want to be thoroughly entertained, buy this book!

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Hawaiin Honey

As a local Puna District woman this read was eerily familiar.

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2016

I gave it four stars not five mainly for a slow start. It was poetically written and the story and the details flowed further into the book. The story is compelling and a must finish. There was some coarse language that I personally found offensive but it suited the characters. I will read more by this author and recommend it to fans of adventure literature.

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