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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.

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A Murder at the Grand Kohala

The Grand Kohala Resort has stood at the edge of the lava fields on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island since 1965 — one of the most beautiful hotels in the world, the kind of place that inspires lifelong devotion in those lucky enough to find it. For Joan Stanford, it was both paradise and secret. She came every summer for fifty years, bringing her family into a love they could feel but never fully understand.

Then Joan dies in the resort’s pool on a Fourth of July weekend, and five years later her husband Fred brings the family back — only to go over an eighth-floor railing the first night they arrive.

Kathy Stanford, the youngest daughter, has always been slightly apart from her family — the one who arrived after the story was written, the one who asks questions no one else thinks to ask. A former lawyer turned marketing strategist, she begins to see what the police don’t: the wrong railing height, the dead security camera, the bartender who can’t meet her eyes when she orders her mother’s drink.

What she uncovers reaches back to the hotel’s earliest days, to a land trust that never should have existed, and to a grievance over ten thousand acres of Hawaiian ranch land that has been building for two decades — until it finally broke in the worst possible way.

A literary mystery about family secrets, land, and what it means to make things right when right and legal are not the same thing.

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Coming Soon A Murder at Sand Hill Estate, a forthcoming novel by M.C. Stocker

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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 nothing more than an old man’s quiet passing. But when her father’s oldest friend and attorney turns up dead days later, struck down in a hit-and-run on the grounds of an exclusive Menlo Park hotel, the quiet grief of one family collides with the loudest story in the Valley: the imminent, multibillion-dollar IPO of Asterion Robotics, run by Ashley’s brother, Eric.

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.

As the case grows more tangled and dangerous, everyone assumes the truth lies with the billionaire founder at the center of it all.

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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