The First Annual Aloha Scavenger Hunt is beginning and journalist Natalie Seachrist and her significant other, private investigator Keoni Hewitt, are joining in the fun. But when her dream of a film noire whodunit set in the mid-twentieth century eerily parallels a murder occurring near their downtown Honolulu hotel suite, Natalie recognizes it was another of her recurring visions. Knowing the usefulness of her unusual gift, HPD Lieutenant John Dias asks Natalie and Keoni to watch for clues to the crime he is investigating and the death she envisioned as the hunt visits O’ahu locales like Sea Life Park and an ancient heiau.
Full-color visions indicate Natalie’s vision was in Chinatown, the victim was Chinese, and the perpetrator was a tall woman in a red suit. A false scavenger hunt clue’s allusion to a priceless Kuan Yin statue causes Natalie to call on her friend Pearl Wong for help. After a Chinese New Year’s feast, the investigative trio tours Chinatown’s Shēn building, once a boutique hotel from which the owner’s granduncle disappeared in the 1950s. Is this the man Natalie envisioned? What of the false clue’s reference to hidden treasure? Coincidences? Or, have Natalie’s visions revealed a murderer with long hidden secrets?
