Professor Molly Mystery

Newly single and far from home, Professor Molly Barda wants to stay out of trouble until she gets tenure at remote Mahina State University. But when local big-shot Jimmy Tanaka, pledges a huge donation to Molly's college and then disappears, Molly's bottom-line-obsessed dean tasks her with locating the missing mogul. As Molly explores ancient grudges and uncovers old scandals, she starts to fall for Tanaka's competitor, the too-good-to-be-true Donnie Gonsalves. Donnie seems to like her for all the wrong reasons-and has a few secrets of his own.

When Professor Molly attends Mahina State University's exclusive donor dinner, she doesn't expect to share a table with the insufferable Stephen Park. Turns out it's one thing to invite your toxic ex-boyfriend to drop dead...it's quite another when he takes you up on it.

It looks like it's going to be another boring faculty retreat at Mahina State University, "Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow." But then the Trust Fall exercise goes horribly wrong. Is it murder, or just the worst meeting of the semester?

There's no such thing as bad publicity. Until it happens to you. Professor Molly's new renter is a social media star seeking privacy in remote Mahina, Hawaii. The arrangement seems to be working out--until the celebrity influencer vanishes. Molly and her best friend Emma Nakamura call in the Mahina PD and try to stay out of the way. But as they confront nosy neighbors, fanatical followers, and the missing woman's has-been husband, Molly and Emma find themselves at the center of the story. And when fame creates its own rules and reality, that's a dangerous place to be.

The only thing Professor Molly Barda wanted was to teach literature. But the job market wasn’t what she expected, so Molly took a job teaching resume writing in the College of Commerce at remote Mahina State University, in rural Hawaii. Now she's chair of the management department, and responsible for mentoring the department's new star, the prickly Fiona Spencer. Her college has just relocated to a former asylum, her budget is being slashed, and the air conditioning is broken. At least, Molly tells herself, nothing else can go wrong. Until Fiona finds a body in her office.

Forced to attend the Student Retention Office's summer retreat, Professor Molly brings her game of buzzword bingo to fend off boredom. But when the insufferable Kent Lovely, Mahina State's one-man hostile work environment, collapses face-first into his haupia cheesecake, the afternoon goes from dull to disastrous. Now Molly has to fight to keep an innocent out of prison -- and herself off the unemployment line.