Devils Island
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Publisher Description
Six guests embark on a wilderness tour, but only two emerge
Devils Island is home to abundant wildlife, making it the ideal place to reintroduce endangered Tasmanian devils. Working to rescue, rehabilitate, and release devils has been Kerry' s job and passion for years, but a new opportunity to work as a naturalist guide for a tour company offers her a respite from the emotionally grueling task of trying to save an endangered species.
Her first tour group as lead guide includes American college friends Brooke and Jane, who are reconnecting after years of estrangement, and two Australian couples hoping to escape their big-city lives and enjoy the company of longtime friends.
When one of the guests disappears on the first night, the group assumes she has wandered too far in the stormy weather. Yet it turns out she has a secret connection to one of the other guests— and when another hiker is found dead in camp, the group finds itself isolated by the worsening storm and wondering who among them might be responsible.
Perfect for fans of Lisa Unger and Barbara Kingsolver
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An island tour off the coast of Australia turns into a bizarre locked-room mystery in this suspenseful outing from Yunker (The Tourist Trail) and Raymond (My Last Continent). Marbury Island has become known as Devils Island thanks to a successful program to breed endangered Tasmanian devils on its shores. Kerry, a naturalist who spearheaded the efforts to save the devils, takes a job with a Marbury tour company after tiring of her arduous, emotionally taxing work with the devils. Her first group consists of six guests, and not long after they land on Marbury—which is uninhabited except for a park ranger who lives there part-time—a member of their party disappears. Things go from bad to worse when Kerry discovers unidentified human remains on a trail, with wounds suggesting the victim was mauled by a pack of Tasmanian devils. Soon, however, simmering tensions within the tour group convince Kerry there's a murderer in their midst. Then someone else dies, and a storm isolates the group from the mainland. Yunker and Raymond keep their feet on the gas, enriching the familiar setup with the grimly fun possibility that the "killer" is a band of ravenous marsupials. This is one nightmare vacation worth taking.
