Maui wedding planner Pali Moon gets stuck with lousy chores all the time: refereeing bridesmaid cat fights, sobering up grooms, and battling Botoxed m-o-t-b’s over where the stepmother sits at the rehearsal dinner. But this one beats all. In early January she has to tell a Kona-born bride-to-be she’s dead. The fine folks at the Vital Records Office insist the birth certificate the bride’s using belongs to a dead baby and they won’t issue her a marriage license. The wedding can’t go on without a license, so Pali goes to Kona to track down the paperwork. Seriously, how hard can it be to locate a certified birth record issued by the State of Hawaii? Turns out, nearly impossible. But worse, people are dying to keep it hidden.
Pali is planning a wedding for teenagers Lili and David but runs into a snag when Lili produces a photocopy of her birth certificate and when trying to retrieve a certified copy of the original, they find out the baby girl from the birth certificate died 4 days after she was born. Pali and Hutch decide to get away for a couple of days to Kona and Pali tells Lili she'll check with the officials there to see if there's an error in the paperwork. When David's mother commits suicide it looks like they'll have to push back the wedding date, in fact if they wait a few more months Lili will be able to use her driver's license for the marriage license and won't need a birth certificate. Lili flies from Maui to Hawaii and asks Pali if she'll stay there for a few days with her. Hatch flies back to Maui because he's on shift the next day at the fire department. Pali gets dragged into David's family drama and after a conversation with a neighbor begins to look into whether his mother committed suicide or was it murder.
Lots of ups and downs in this book and like the last few books it is more about Pali's life than a murder mystery. It was well written and the Hawaiian Islands background is always a delight.
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