Ms America and the Offing on Oahu

(Beauty Queen Mysteries #1)
Ms Ohio Happy Pennington finds out it's not all sequins and silicone when she competes on Oahu for the Ms America crown-the first national title of her life. When her fiercest competitor tumbles dead out of the isolation booth during the televised pageant finale, Honolulu PD gets to thinking Happy might have killed her. What's the only thing a beauty queen worth her sash can do? Nab the real killer-even if that means tangling with snarky rival contestants, a local who claims to be Hawaiian royalty, a brooding helicopter pilot, and a pageant emcee hot enough to die for ...
Author Diana Dempsey never competed in beauty pageants but she did the next best thing: she worked in TV news. After a dozen years as an Emmy-winning anchor and reporter, Diana hung up her mic to become an author of fast and fun romantic and mystery fiction.