None of the local residents, even the girl's parents, want to cooperate with the Detective. The cult, devoutly religious islanders, are definitly hiding something, but what could it be? Has it something to do with the murder? Sometimes, I fail to realize that a book is part of a series when I initially request it. Unfortunately for me, this was the second in this series. I wasn't totally lost, but I think that I definitely could have benefited from reading the prior book, unless that is the American in me.

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I’m a bit of an armchair sleuth. I love a good mystery or police procedural show. Much to my husband’s dismay, I often holler out who I am certain the culprit is when we are only 20% of the way through the program. If you’re a fellow Nancy Drew, this book was a fun read. Maria, an only fourteen-year-old girl, suddenly disappears on the small Island Föhr. Detective Lena Lorenzen, who is nearby is called in for the investigation. Eventhough the bodie of the girl is found with vicious wounds on the wrist, Lorenzen immediatelly thinks that I can't be suicide and Maria must have been murdered. Whitman, Walt (1871). "On the Beach at Night". Poetry Foundation . Retrieved 3 August 2020. Not to be confused with another Whitman poem, "On the Beach at Night Alone".Set on an island off the Danish coast, the people are already well known to each other. Everyone seems to be stone walling the detectives and pressure is mounting to solve the case at the earliest. Even in this day and age arranged marriages within the community, implicit obedience, and the husband as head of the house prevents the detectives from getting any information vital to the case. Shute's initial story was published as a four-part series, The Last Days on Earth, in the London weekly periodical Sunday Graphic, in April 1957. For the novel, Shute expanded the storyline. [4] The story has been adapted twice as a film (in 1959 and 2000) and once as a BBC radio broadcast in 2008. Detective Lena Lorenzen is taking a few days vacation to stay with her boyfriend,when she receives a call from her superior to investigate a fourteen year old girl who went missing on an island village off the coast of Germany nearby where she is visiting. Lena is a dedicated detective and when she hears the missing person is a child she drops everything to help on this case. Lena is unprepared for the uncooperative reactions from the girl's parents and neighbors until she finds out that they all belong to a religious sect that has alienated themselves from the regular townsfolk and Lena will have to dig hard to find out why all the secrecy and cold indifference to her looking for information about the girl. A few days later the body.of a young girl is found dead on the beach. Now the detective will have more suspects than she can handle and why didn't the parents report their daughter missing and why was it their other estranged daughter Johanna who had alerted the police about her missing sister instead of their parents.

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Brian Melican. "On the Beach Book Review". The Neville Shute Foundation . Retrieved 15 October 2013. On holiday on the German island of Amrum Lena is sent to the neighbouring island of Föhr to help investigate the disappearance of a fourteen year old girl, Maria Logener. When Maria’s body is found on the beach with her wrist slashed Lena is not as sure as the others that it is suicide. The setting is atmospheric that I found myself googling these little known islands off the coast of Germany so I could see their beauty for myself. The locations are stunning and I felt as if I was truly there...on the beach beside Lena, puzzling out the mystery alongside her.Government services and the economy gradually grind to a halt. In the end, Towers chooses not to remain and die with Moira, but rather to lead his crew on a final mission to scuttle the submarine outside of Australian territorial waters. He refuses to allow his imminent demise to turn him aside from his duty to the US Navy, and he acts as a pillar of strength to his crew. The investigation is led by DI Lena Lorenzen, and immediately she finds defiance and resistance from all directions. She and her colleague, Johann, make a great team. Soon they discover that Maria has actually been murdered and even her parents resent Lena’s probing questions. They belong to a rather puritanical religious cult, and so do many of the islanders, all with their strident beliefs. Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction called the book "an emotional wallop. It should be made mandatory reading for all professional diplomats and politicians." [11] Isaac Asimov said, "Surely to the science fiction fan—as opposed to the general public—this must seem very milk-and-watery. So there's a nuclear war to start the story with—and what else is new?" He described the novel as an example of what he called "'tomorrow fiction'", and "there can be nothing duller than tomorrow's headlines in science fiction". [12] [13] This was my first read by Anna Johannsen and it is certainly a fast-paced crime thriller! It is the second book in ‘The Island Mystery Series’ which can also be read independently.