S.P. Grogan

S.P. Grogan is active in the entertainment industry. For the last ten years the author has been an annual visitor to the Big Island and for several years active in real estate on the island of Kaua'i. Buy the author's best selling debut quest mystery, Vegas Die.

Stephen Grogan has been in a battle all his life between his creative elements, less the single purpose vocation, more so the generalist everyman with a boatload of ideas seeking fulfillment. His resume would take pages, with harrowing stories, and forgettable sidebars. Suffice it to say, he has always written, whether in school, or his first job out of college (public relations) or in the entrepreneurial world where a business plan is required to be drafted.

For ten years in the 1990's, S.P. Grogan was an editor & publisher of an industry entertainment magazine.

March 1, 2011 S.P. Grogan did a book signing at Kona Stories at their Words and Wine event to promote his new book, "Captain Cooked".  This Hawaiian Mystery of romance, revenge and recipes has become a big seller on the Big Island complete with a GPS treasure hunt worth $5K.

One reviewer says “Captain Cooked reads like Janet Evanovich morphing into Rachel Ray while filming a remake of the Perils of Pauline.” The book’s subtitle speaks of ‘Hawaiian Mystery of Romance, Revenge…and Recipes’.

The heroine, instead of finding ‘a quiet beach where she could go topless,’ stumbles into a poisoned Hawaiian singing star. Her working vacation involves riots, suspicious accidents, earthquakes, flowing lava, a real cliff hanger—and romance, having to choose between three men.  As the author teases, ‘and don’t forget the boiling cauldron’.
“Because I love the cultural mix of the islands and especially in these tough economic times,” explained Grogan, “I’ve sought to create an adventure to attract more tourists to Hawai’i.” Local island artists like Kathy Long, Brad Parker, and Herb Kane are featured in Captain Cooked, as are top restaurants and chefs like Alan Wong, Merriman’s, and Hilo Bay Café who contributed their best recipes. A portion of book sales are being contributed to the Hawaiian Food Bank Program.

A unique aspect of the novel is that there is a real treasure hunt embedded within the pages. A Hawaiian war club is somewhere hidden on the Big Island and if found, using GPS, the finder receives $5,000 cash. This same sort of contest was employed in Grogan’s previous mystery, a best seller entitled Vegas Die, where a dagger was secreted in a library book.

Visit www.CaptainCooked.com to start the adventure.