Return of the Ghost Killer is Volume I of The Ghost Killer Trilogy, a contemporary novel series inspired by the 15th-century Hawaiian legend of Lana' i's ghost killer.Set against the lush backdrop of modern Lana' i, this first volume follows the descendants of pineapple workers, fishermen, maids, cowboys, cooks, and clerks, all entangled in a gripping community saga. When an island-wide search for an elderly hero of the plantation era coincides with the mysterious death of the island's notorious " bad boy," the investigation forces residents to confront their own personal ghosts-- of memory, imagination, dream, and regret.The haunted include a disabled athlete convinced he is unworthy of the woman he has always loved, a divorced mother returning to the island with two children, a former boom spray operator with a failing heart and unsettling visions, an autistic-seeming 11-year-old searching for a father he has never known, and a centenarian pensioner tormented by both tragedy and fantastical dreams. Together, their stories paint a vivid, haunting portrait of contemporary Lana' i, where past and present, myth and reality, collide.