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M.C. Stocker
Mystery novels set in the places people love most — and the secrets those places keep.
M.C. Stocker writes literary mysteries built around the landscapes that hold families together and, eventually, pull them apart — from a legendary resort on Hawaii’s Kohala Coast to the fog-covered hills above Silicon Valley. A Murder at the Grand Kohala is his debut novel.
A Murder at the Grand Kohala
The Grand Kohala Resort has stood at the edge of the lava fields on the Big Island’s Kohala Coast since 1965 — the kind of place that inspires lifelong devotion in those fortunate enough to discover it. For Joan Stanford, it was both paradise and refuge, a place she returned to every summer for fifty years.
When Joan dies unexpectedly in the resort’s pool one Fourth of July weekend, her family is left with grief and unanswered questions. Five years later, her husband brings them back — and another tragedy strikes on their very first night.
Kathy Stanford, the youngest daughter, has never accepted the easy explanations. As she starts asking questions no one else will, she uncovers secrets some people would prefer stayed buried — secrets rooted deep in the history of the resort, her family, and the land itself.
Set against one of the most breathtaking landscapes on earth, A Murder at the Grand Kohala is a literary mystery about family secrets and the stories we inherit without knowing them.
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A Murder at Sand Hill Estate
A Silicon Valley whodunit where one of the biggest fortunes in tech history hides the smallest, most human motive. When Ashley Trippler finds her father dead in his study, it looks like an old man’s quiet passing — until his oldest friend and attorney turns up dead days later, and the quiet grief of one family collides with the loudest story in the Valley.
Detective Frank Griffiths, a lifelong local with no patience for wealth or spectacle, follows the evidence wherever it leads — straight into boardrooms, and the private lives of a family with far more to hide than anyone imagined.
Set against the real hills, restaurants, and back roads of Menlo Park and Silicon Valley, A Murder at Sand Hill Estate is a classic, Columbo-style mystery about ambition, loyalty, and just how far someone might go to protect the life they’ve built.
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