Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat are friends. They live in a cane field on the Hamakua Coast in Hawaii.

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Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat’s Hawaiian Christmas

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Alice Mongoose, Alistair Rat, and the Big Sign

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Alice and Alistair have a Restaurant

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Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat in Hawaii

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The Alice Mongoose Omnibus

The Alice Mongoose Omnibus

With this reissue of the original stories in a single volume, a new generation of children can enjoy Alice and Alistair’s adventures on Hawaii’s Hamakua Coast. Follow Alice Mongoose as she travels across the ocean, befriends the gentle and dapper Alistair Rat, starts a new business, and learns valuable lessons about life and friendship in her new Hawaiian home. The Alice Mongoose and Alistair…

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It’s Alice Mongoose’s first Christmas in Hawaii. She misses her family and is resigned to spending the holiday alone.Alistair Rat would love to spend Christmas with his best friend Alice, but he’s afraid that Alice has more exciting things to do than spend time with a solitary rat. Fortunately, the outspoken Cordelia Canetoad knows just what to do! The Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat stories are…

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Alice Mongoose, Alistair Rat, and the Big Sign

Alice Mongoose, Alistair Rat, and the Big Sign

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat have a lovely lunch shop. Alice runs it during the daytime, and Alistair, who is nocturnal, manages the night shift. Everything is working well–until a helpful customer suggests that they put up a sign.Alice and Alistair agree that their lunch shop should have a sign. And they assume they agree on what the sign should say.When the delivery arrives, Alice and…

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Alice and Alistair Have a Restaurant

Alice and Alistair Have a Restaurant

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat love to eat. And they love to cook together. Naturally, they decide to open a restaurant. How much fun it will be!

But on opening night, Alice and Alistair find that some customers are impossible to please, others are happy to eat everything in the pantry and squawk for more, and the entire endeavor is far too much for the two friends to manage. Their dream, they…

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Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat in Hawaii

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat in Hawaii

When Alice Mongoose sails from India to a sugar plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii, she is shocked to learn what her new job entails. She decides instead to strike out on her own. When she meets the gentle and dapper Alistair Rat, she knows that she has found a friend in her new Hawaiian home.

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat in Hawaii is the first book by Mary Pfaff, acclaimed in her day as…

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The Nakamura Letters

  With her round-the-clock morning sickness (along with “helpful” pregnancy advice coming in from every direction), Molly can’t wait for the registration rush to be over so she can settle into teaching her classes.  But then Mahina State’s powerful fundraising office tasks her with a special assignment: she is to serve as the personal tutierge (that’s tutor-concierge) to Jeremy Brigham, whose…

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Mother's Day

Mother’s Day

  With her round-the-clock morning sickness (along with “helpful” pregnancy advice coming in from every direction), Molly can’t wait for the registration rush to be over so she can settle into teaching her classes.  But then Mahina State’s powerful fundraising office tasks her with a special assignment: she is to serve as the personal tutierge (that’s tutor-concierge) to Jeremy Brigham, whose…

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The Blessed Event

You might wonder what my least-favorite student was doing in my living room. In a twist of fate that might seem hilarious if it happened to someone else, Davison was now my stepson.

Professor Molly is looking forward to a quiet summer in Mahina, Hawai`i working on her research and adjusting to her new marriage. But when a visit from Donnie’s relatives coincides with a convenient death, Molly…

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The Invasive Species

It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.

On the way to interviewing a local farmer, Professor Molly stumbles onto a dismembered body in a field of genetically modified papayas. Molly is sure the murder has nothing to do with her new research project…until a second gruesome death rocks Mahina’s farming community, and Molly’s administration drops her research like a hot potato. If Molly can’t root out…

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The Black Thumb

It should have been a lovely summer afternoon.

When a violent death disrupts the Monthly meeting of the Pua Kala Garden society, Professor Molly Barda has no intention of playing amateur detective. But Molly’s not just a witness–the victim is Molly’s house guest and grad-school frenemy. And Molly quickly finds to her dismay that her interest in the murder of the stylish and self-centered Melanie…

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The Cursed Canoe get the ebook | Buy at your local bookstore

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The Musubi Murder get the ebook | Buy at your local bookstore

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The Case of the Defunct Adjunct get the ebook | Buy at your local bookstore