Toby Neal has 25 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 13 ratings. The most-rated is Blood Orchids.
Blood Orchids
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Fast-paced crime mystery with a touch of romance, readers call Blood Orchids "un-putdownable"! Hawaii is palm trees, black sand, and blue water - but for policewoman Lei Texeira, there's a dark side to paradise. Lei has overcome a scarred past to make a life for herself as a cop in the sleepy Big Island town of Hilo. On a routine patrol she finds two murdered teenagers - one of whom she'd recently busted. With its echoes of her own past, the murdered girl's harsh life and tragic death affect Lei deeply. She becomes obsessed - even as the killer is drawn to Lei's intensity, feeding off her vulnerabilities and toying with her sanity. Despite her obsession with the case and fear that she's being stalked, Lei finds herself falling in love for the first time. Steaming volcanoes, black sand beaches, and shrouded fern forests are the backdrop to Lei's quest for answers - and the stalker is closer than she can imagine, as threads of the past tangle in her future. Lei is determined to find the killer - but he knows where to find her first.
©2011 Toby Neal (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Torch Ginger
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If J.D. Robb's In Death series went on location with Kaui Hart Hemmings's The Descendants, you'd have Toby Neal's Torch Ginger. The island of Kaua'i is remote jungle, golden beaches, and ancient culture - but transients are disappearing in paradise, and only Detective Lei Texeira notices. Lei transfers to the island of Kaua'i, where she uncovers a pattern of disappearances that may be related to a bizarre cult - or is it just one madman at work? In Lei's world, everyone is guilty until proven innocent. In the midst of the biggest case sleepy Kaua'i has ever seen, Lei must also untangle the mysteries of her heart and discover who she loves.
©2012 Toby Neal (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Bitter Feast
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He wants it all...and ends up with a knife in the back. Michael Stevens investigates the murder of a chef in a fine dining restaurant on Maui that's a buffet of possible motives where jealousy, passion, and revenge top the menu. A host of familiar characters, from Jared Stevens to Dr. Wilson, chime in from their perspectives, each contributing essential information to one of the most complex cases Stevens has ever encountered. A hurricane is no place for a baby. Nothing ever goes as planned for Lei and Stevens, and that includes the arrival of their first child. Lei is fully occupied with this personal project as her world is torn apart by powerful forces. "Neal's writing is persistently riveting... masterly." (Kirkus Reviews) Listen to this fast paced mystery with a twist of romance, and take a trip to Hawaii the series that’s sold more than a million copies!
©2016 Toby Neal (P)2019 Toby Neal
Black Jasmine
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The island of Maui is turquoise ocean, stunning vistas, and whalesong - but organized crime has a hidden hold, and Detective Lei Texeira tracks evil that hides behind a beautiful face. When a nameless teenage girl dies in an apparent vehicular suicide, Lei can’t rest until she finds out what really happened. She blazes through all the wealth and poverty of Maui island society in her quest for justice, rousing a deadly foe - even as she faces the personal demons of commitment and revenge that threaten the only real love she’s ever known.
©2012 Toby Neal (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Rip Tides
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Surfing in Hawaii can be fame, talent, and...murder. Poised to win the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing, Maui surf star Makoa Simmons washes up tragically dead. Detective Lei Texeira plunges into a high-profile case whose dark and tangled motives reach deep into the elite world of professional surfing on the North Shore of Oahu. Lei must follow her instincts into new territory even as husband Michael Stevens struggles with heartbreak of another kind.
©2015 Toby Neal (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Dark Lava
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Maui is sacred places, ancient artifacts, and the dark lava of deepest passions. Nothing ever goes easy for detectives Lei Texeira and Michael Stevens. An investigation into heiau desecrations must take a backseat to the emergence of an enemy who targets those closest to them, leaving shrouds as a calling card. Lei and Stevens face challenges of the body, mind, and heart in this seventh in the best-selling Lei Crime Series.
©2014 Toby Neal (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Twisted Vine
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The island of Oahu is skyscrapers and rainforests, beaches and boutiques - but Special Agent Lei Texeira is drawn into a shadow world connected by death and the Internet. Mysterious suicides draw Lei and her team, including tech specialist Sophie Ang, to hunt a criminal who plays with the thin gray line between right and wrong. Lei stirs up a hornet's nest on the investigation as her past reaches out in a twisted vine of old loves, new technologies, and dark vendettas.
©2013 Toby Neal (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Shattered Palms
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Maui is lush mountains, cloud forest and exquisite birdsong - but for Detective Lei Texeira, arrows break that peace. Someone is stalking poachers that are capturing Maui's rarest birds, and Lei pursues the case with her usual leap-first, look-later style - but will she be able to catch a killer, save the birds, and still make it to her own wedding? Shattered Palms is a roller coaster ride from the top of Haleakala to the beach and back again, with extinction at stake.
©2014 Toby Neal (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Broken Ferns
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The island of Oahu is warm breezes, skyscrapers, and green mountains - but a daring young thief is out to make a statement, and Special Agent Lei Texeira's new career is already on the line. Lei Texeira has made a difficult transition from detective on Maui to the FBI on Oahu - and her first big case as an agent draws national media attention. With her typical jump-first, look-later style, she pursues her quarry from Oahu to the outer islands, rousing old conflicts and new heartbreak.
©2013 Toby Neal (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Red Rain
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Paradise has dark parallels. A child’s skull, washed up on a beach, calls out for justice. The last thing detective Lei Texeira wants to do while her husband is deployed overseas is deal with a cold case involving child homicide, and rescuing a group of foster kids takes her beyond her personal limits. He just wants to live long enough to get home. Michael Stevens lands in a jungle hell filled with every kind of threat from crocodiles to kidnappers. Somehow he must get himself and his men to the rescue point, and defeat his inner demons along the way. "Persistently riveting...Neal's writing is tenacious, highlighted by the masterly crosscutting of two exhilarating storylines." (Kirkus Reviews) Grab this fast-paced mystery with a twist of romance, and take a trip to Hawaii with the series that’s sold more than a million copies!
©2015 Toby Neal (P)2018 Toby Neal
Fire Beach
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Hawaii is cane fires, lush jungles, and feuds that won't die until everyone's dead. Detective Lei Texeira stalks the shroud killer on her own terms as Michael Stevens finds himself engulfed in the flames of a case with tangled consequences. In this eighth of the best-selling Lei Crime Series, Lei and Stevens find out just how far hate and love will go.
©2014 Toby Neal (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Bone Hook
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Paradise holds deep secrets. She just wants to save the reefs...and it gets her killed. Five years after the events of Rip Tides, Lei Texeira gets into hot water investigating a crime scene 90 feet down off of the tiny atoll of Molokini, where the death of a beautiful marine biologist is anything but an accident. He’ll do anything to beat his demons. Lei’s husband, Michael Stevens, is desperate to kill an enemy from within, and it drives him to make a choice his wife will never sanction. Can Lei and Stevens find the answers they need before their different directions tear them apart? “Bone Hook is a masterful, gripping story, destined to become a favorite journey into the darkness of selfishly deceitful human machinations set in the paradise of Hawaii.” (R.S. Guthrie, author of Blood Land) Listen to this fast paced mystery with a twist of romance, and take a trip to Hawaii with the series that’s sold more than a million copies!
©2015 Toby Neal (P)2018 Toby Neal
Somewhere in California
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Dancing is everything - until it leads to love. Jade Michaels has a simple life: home, school, dance studio - and a lot to prove in the shadow of dynamic, talented older sisters. She runs away and risks everything to compete in the first-ever dance reality show in LA in 1992, and meets the perfect guy - until she finds out he's her sister's ex. Four years ago, producer Brandon Forbes rescued Jade's sister Pearl from a mugger - and discovered her as a model. He fell hard, but she married someone else. Brandon thought his broken heart was ancient history - until Jade's dazzling audition activates conflicted feelings he can't deny. Can Jade and Brandon navigate the past that separates them?
©2016 Toby Neal (P)2017 Toby Neal
Somewhere on St. Thomas
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Why him? Why now? What else could go wrong? Winner of the Silver Medal of Excellence: eLit Awards, 2016 Finalist: Reader's Choice Award, The Romance Reviews Set in 1984, in a world before sexting and texting, this "lushly written and emotional" new adult romance stars redheaded spelling champion Ruby Michaels, who meets the wrong kind of man on the eve of her departure from St. Thomas for college, when fireworks ensue. "I won't be derailed by anyone - no matter how handsome and interesting," she vowed. But some promises are made to be broken. Surfer, sailor, handyman Rafe is fleeing grief and his family's opulent lifestyle. In Ruby's passionate innocence he finds a woman he's willing to sail the globe to pursue. "I am a pirate," he tells her. "When I see a treasure I want, I'll do anything to get it."
©2015 Toby Neal (P)2017 Toby Neal
Somewhere in the City
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It's a long way from sleepy St. Thomas to the big city. "It's dangerous to be too beautiful." The year is 1989, and magnet-for-trouble Pearl Michaels leaves her childhood home, the tropical paradise of St. Thomas, to live with her sister in Boston. Discovered as a model, Pearl finds fame, fortune, and Magnus Thorne. Harley-riding, enigmatic Magnus is a man with a past and a hazardous, secret present. The last thing he needs or wants is an addiction to a woman so famous she's known simply as "Pearl," but he can't seem to let her go. Danger and passion stalk Magnus and Pearl from Paris to Dubai, and love's not the only thing at stake.
©2015 Toby Neal (P)2017 Toby Neal
Wired Hard
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Paradise has nowhere to hide from a thief with an obsession. Security specialist Sophie Ang has a new case: Someone is looting artifacts from a royal Hawaiian archaeology site on Maui. Things get deadly fast, and Sophie's friend, Maui homicide detective Lei Texeira, takes the case. The women track a killer whose tangled motives extend high into the world of Hawaiian cultural affairs and deep into the darkest of human motivations. And all the while, Sophie walks a tightrope between new love and heartbreak. Praise for the book: "Neal's writing is persistently riveting... Masterly." (Kirkus Reviews)
©2017 Toby Neal (P)2020 Toby Neal
Michaels Family Romance Box Set
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Meet Ruby, Pearl and Jade--three sisters who grew up in the paradise of St. Thomas. Each young woman has a unique path to walk, and a unique love to discover--and they are as different as the gemstones they're named for.
©2015, 2016, 2017 Toby Neal (P)2017 Toby Neal
Wired Dark
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"Paradise can’t contain a thirst for revenge.How would you handle a sadistic stalker? Security specialist Sophie Ang returns to Maui, working alongside dynamic partner Jake Dunn to solve a series of bizarre and escalating threats against a rocker with a beach mansion. But soon, catching a crazed stalker becomes the least of Sophie’s problems: A deadly enemy is hell-bent on taking her down, along with anyone she cares about. Sophie’s very identity is tested as she grapples with issues of conscience and survival in a struggle that takes her to the edge of heartbreak, and beyond.
©2017 Toby Neal (P)2020 Toby Neal
Wired Rogue
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Paradise has no protection from an insidious cult. Wired in to her computers, MMA-fighting tech agent Sophie Ang has been content in her clean, cool tech lab, where she chases criminals online, continuing a dance in the dark with the enigmatic vigilante known as the Ghost. Tumultuous changes from without and within eject her from her agency cocoon to the front lines, where she finds herself in partnership with a brilliant, overbearing, larger-than-life ex-Special Forces operative called Jake Dunn. They climb walls, dodge bullets, kidnap children, and dig up bodies for a case that might cost her life and has already taken her badge. "Neal's writing is persistently riveting... Masterly." (Kirkus Reviews) “Toby Neal has created a wonderfully rounded action heroine with everything: looks, brains, mixed martial arts prowess, and the ability to swear proficiently in Thai and English. Fans will love Sophie Ang, as well as the tangled web she must negotiate in the tropical setting of Hawaii.” (Russell Blake, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author)
©2016 Toby Neal (P)2019 Toby Neal
Stolen in Paradise
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One betta fish, two dead biologists, three trysts, four suspects, and 35 pairs of shoes add up to complicated days in paradise for Special Agent Marcella Scott. Marcella gets into sand way over her Manolos investigating the death of a prominent scientist who washed up on a Waikiki beach with a bullet hole between the eyes. BioGreen, a genetically-engineered algae that could solve the world fuel crisis, has been stolen from the development lab - a hotbed of intrigue where everyone on the project has something to hide. Marcella also has a secret vice, more dangerous than expensive shoes - and it leads her into arms that are too close for comfort.
©2013 Toby Neal (P)2014 Audible Inc.