Here Today, Gone to Maui

Loved this book! Tons of laughter and spins and twists to keep you guessing. Lots of entertainment if you happen to know Maui a little bit. Recommended for reading on your flight to Maui!!

Okay, I want you to think of a vacation that you've taken that made you think that you've just had the worse possible vacation ever. Times that by one hundred and you have the book Here Today, Gone To Maui by Carol Snow. Meet Jane Shea. She's your typical "Plain Jane". She works a steady job, , she has a great boyfriend, Jimmy, who is taking her on luxury vacation to Maui, and she makes sure that her apartment is always in tip top shape. So a luxurious trip to Maui is just what she needs. Of course the closer the trip comes, the more she worries about losing her luggage, missing the flight, flight delays and pretty much everything else that she can think of. The one thing, though, that she doesn't worry about is the one thing she should. And, that would be losing her boyfriend, Jimmy. Before Jane can even start to enjoy Maui, Jimmy comes up missing. That's the start of the longest and strangest week that you could even imagine! Jane goes from perfect vacation to pretty much hell on earth to her. Everything you thought you knew is going to change. Carol Snow is now in my favorite author category. I have read a few books by her before and really enjoyed them, but it's like she just keeps getting better! Here Today, Gone To Maui had me hooked from the first page. I was fascinated with Jane and this trip of a lifetime. Ms. Snow's writing is dangerously good and makes you want more. I seriously can't rave about this book enough. Just when you think you know, she changes it on you and that's the type of writing that is irresistible. Now, I guess I'll go and sit and patiently wait (NOT! lol) for her next book. Carol, please don't keep me waiting! reposted http://writersblockreviews.blogspot.com

I've read Carol Snow's previous books and this is by far the best one yet! It's filled with humor, great characters, and a good mystery that left me wanting to read until the end. Im looking forward to more books like this one from her in the future.

In Southern California, thirtyish Jane Shea looks forward to her week long vacation with her boyfriend, Michael "Jimmy" James although the weeks just before she considers what could go wriong like the flu, food poisoning or shingles. However her fears seem for naught as Jimmy arrives at Jane's home an hour early to take them to the Orange County Airport to fly to Atlanta to catch their connecting first class flight to Maui. In Maui, Jimmy takes forever to get the car rental and then the Hyatt insists they never made reservations; Jimmy tells her no other hotel on Kannapolis has a room so he arranged for them to stay at a studio condo. Soon after that Jimmy goes diving, but never returns. A distraught Jane fears her boyfriend drowned, but soon finds herself in trouble she does not understand as the real Michael James stands up as someone she never knew. Jane is an intriguing lead character as she learns that all her obsessive anxiety disorder musings pale next to the reality of the problems she suddenly faces due to the activities of her missing boyfriend. Jimmy is an enigmatic person who the heroine (and readers) begins to unpeel the mystery one petal at a time. Fans will enjoy this lighthearted romantic suspense romp everything that she anticipated happening on her vacation did not occur, instead much worse did as Jane learns the hard way between worrying over possible trouble and real trouble. Harriet Klausner

I picked up this novel when I was at the bookstore the other day because I had just returned from my trip to Maui and it sounded like a fun book. Not only was the storyline unique and a fun read I also had the bonus of reliving my trip through the amazing descriptive details of Maui in this book. We had stayed at the Hyatt and attended the luau there so there was an added bonus for that as well. The only thing the author got wrong was Cheeseburger in Paradise not Hamburger but I have a feeling there was some sort of copyright stuff on that. For those that haven't been to Maui you still should read this book if you like chick lit with a toss of whodunit in with it. The heroine is very likable and I could easily identify with her even though I'm the total polar opposite of her. The story is extremely fast paced but not too much to the point of feeling that details are missing. I read this book in one day!