MURDER IN PARADISE A Christmas in Hawaii Turns to Tragedy

Paperback. It can't happen here. Hawaii is Heaven-on-Earth, with its soft, flower-scented breezes, clear turquoise ocean water, and gently swaying palms. But on Christmas Eve 1991, it became a place of darkest evil, when Dana Ireland was kidnapped by 3 strangers, raped, savagely beaten, and left to die in the early hours of Christmas morning. A vivacious, 23yr old visitor to the "Big Island," her life ended prematurely thanks to a terrible, senseless assault and the failure of rescue workers to reach the crime scene on time. Then the local police seemed unable to catch her killers. But one man refused to let the bloody outrage go unpunished. From his Virginia home thousands of miles away, John Ireland, Dana's father, launched his own investigation - a determined hunt for his daughter's killers that would stretch out over nearly a decade...and spark one of the most intensive manhunts and one of the most sensational and shocking trials in the idyllic island's history. Illus. 374pp. p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.